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224 S U M A T R A .
if fhe brings more, the hufband is accountable for the difference.- The
original ceremony of divorce confifts in cutting a rattan cane in two, in
prefence of the parties," their relations, and the chiefs of the country.
Second mod© In the mode of marriage by ambel ana, the father of 4 virgin makes
of marriage. choice of fome young man for her hufband, generally from an inferior
family, which renounces all further right to, or intereft in him, and he
is taken into the houfe of his father in law, who kills a buffaloe on the
occafion, and receives twenty dollars from the fon's relations. After this,
the booróo bye 'nya (the good and bad of him) is véftéd in the wife's family.
If he murders or robs, they pay the bangoon, or the fine. If
he is murdered, they receive the bangoon. They are liable to any debts
he may contract after marriage; thofe prior to it remaining with his parents.
He lives in the family, in a ftate between that of a fon, and a
debtor. He partakes- as a fon of what the houfe affords, but has no property
in himfelf. His rice plantation, the produce of his pepper garden,
with every thing that he can gain or earn, belong to the family. He
is liable to bfe divorced at their pleafure, and though he has children,
muft leave all, and return naked as he came. The family fometimès
indulge him with leave to remove to a houfe of his own, and take his
wife with him; but he, his children, and effects, are ftill their property.
If he has not daughters by the marriage, he may redeem himfelf and
wife, by paying her joojoor; but if there are daughters before they
are emancipated, the difficulty is enhanced, becaufe the family are
equally entitled to their value. It is common, however, when they
are upon good terms, to releafe him, on the payment of one joojoor,
or at moft with the addition of an addat of fifty dollars.
With this addition, he may infill upon a releafe, whilfl his daughters
are not marriageable. If the family have paid any debts for him, he
muft alfo make them good. Should he contract more than they approve
of, and they fear his adding to them, they procure a divorce, and
fend him back to his parents; but muft pay his debts, to that time. If
he is a notorious fpendthrift, they outlaw him. Inftead of taking out a
writ, they have only to prefent one to the proatteens and pambarab. This
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