Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-02-26
Divorces in Different Countries.

Divorces in Different Countries.
observation-disclosures have mover been
sanctioned in Australia.
Jews.-In olden times the Jews had a
discretionary power of divorcing their
wives.
Javans.-If a wife be dissatisfied, she
can obtain divorce by paying certain
sun.
Thibetans.-Divorces are seldom allow
ed, unless with the consent of both parties
neither of whom can afterwards remar-
~.
Moors If wife does not become the
mother of boy, she may be divorced with
the consent of the tribe and she can marry
again.
Abyssinians.-No form of marriage is
necessary. The connection may be dis
solved and renewed as often as the parties
think proper.
Siberians.-If man be dissatisfi d with
the most trihins act of his wife, he tears
the cap or veil from her head and this con-
stitutes divorce.
South Sea Islands.-The connection
hardly deserves the name of marriage, as
it is dissolved whenever the husband de-
sires a change.
Coreau-The husband can divorce his
wife at pleasure and leave her the chargt
of maintaining their children. If she
prove unfaithful he can put her to death.
Siamese.-The first wife may be divorc-
al h,,. ~ ha
She then may claim the first, third and
fifth child, and the alternate children are
yielded to the husband.
Arctic Regions.-When a man desire:
| divorce, he leaves the house in anger
and does not ret Irn for several days. The
wife understands the hint, packs hel
clothes and leaves.
Druse and Turkomans-Among these
people, if a wife asks her husbands per
mission to 60 out, and he says Co. with
out adding, but come back again." sh'
is divor eed. Though both parties desire
it, they cannot live together without being
remarked
Cochin Chinese-If the parties choose
to separate, they break a pair of chop
sticks or copper coin in the presence o
witnesses, by which action the union il
dissolved. The husband must restore t.
the wife the property belonging to he
prior to marriage.
American lndians.-Among some tribe:
the pieces of stick given to the witnesse
of the marriage are burnt as a sign o
divorce. Usually new connections art
formed without the old ones being dis
solved. A man never divorces his wife i
she have borne him sons.
Tartars The husband may put ava,
his partner and seek another whenever i
peases him, and his wife may do tn
same. If she be ill-treated, she complain
to the magistrate, who, attended by som
of the principal people, accompanies he
to the house and pronounces forma
divorce
Chinese.-Divorces are allowed in case
of criminality, mutual dislike, jealousy
incompatibility Of temper, or too much 10
quacity on the part of the wife. The hus
band cannot sell his wife until she leave
him and becomes a slave to him by actor
of law for desertion. A son is bound t.
divorce his wife if she dispeases his par
ents.
Circassians-Two kinds of divorce are
granted in Clrcassia, one total, the othe
provisional. Where the first is allowed
the parties can Immediately marry again
where the second exists, the couple agree
to separate for year. and it, at the ex
| plration OF that time, the husband does
not send for his wife, her relations may
compel him to total divorce
Grecians.-A settlement was usually
given to the wife at marriage for her sup
port in case of divorce. The wife's por.
tion was the restored to her, and the hus
band required to pay monthly interest fol
its use during the time he detained it from
her. Usually the men could put theil
wives away on slight occasions. Even the
fear Of having too large family suficed
Divorces scarcely ev,r occur in Modern
Greece.
Hindoos.-Either party, for a slight
cause, may leave the other and marry
again. Where both desire it, there is not
the least trouble. If man call his wife
mother" it is considered indelicate tc
live with her again. Among one tribe, the
"Garos," if the wife be unfaithful, the
husband cannot obtain a divorce unless he
gives her al the property and the children
A woman, on the contrary, may leave when
she pleases, and marry another man and
convey to him the entire property of her
former husband.
Romans. In olden times a man might
divorce his wife if she were unfaithful, if
she counterteited his private keys, or drank
wine without his knowledge. They would
divorce their wives when they pleased.
Notwithstanding that five hundred and
twenty-one years elapsed without one d.
vorce. Afterwards law was passed al
lowing either sex to make the application.
Divorces then became frequent on the
slightest pretexts. Seneca says that some
women no longer reckoned the years by the
consuls, but by the number of their bus
bands. St. Jerome speaks of man who
buried twenty wives, and woman who
buried twenty-five husbands. The EN-
peror Augustus endeavored to restrain this
license by penalties.-Bench and Bar
DIR. LIEBHR-The brave old German,