Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-25
DIVORCES.

DIVORCES.
Observation-Disclosures have never been
sanctioned in Australia.
JEws.-In olden times the Jews had dis.
cretionary power of divorcing their wives.
JAvANs.-If the wife be dissatisfied she can
obtain divorce by paying certain sum.
THIBETANs.-Divorces are seldom allowed,
unless with theconsent Of both parties, neither
of whom can afterward remarry.
MooRs.-If the wife does not become the
mother of boy, she may be divorced with
the consent of the tribe, and she can marry
again.
ABYss1NIANs.-No form of marriage is ne
cessary. The connection may be dissolved
and renewed as often as the parties may think
proper.
SIBER1ANs.-Ifth the man be dissatisfied with
the most triAing acts of his wife, he tears her
cap or veil from her head, and this constitutes
divorce. .. a..
CoREAN.-The husband can divorce his
wife or treasure, and leave her the charge Of
maintaining the children. If sheproves un-
faithful, he can put her to death.
SIAMEsE.- E.-The first wife may be divorced,
not sold, as the others may be. She then
may claim the first, third and fifth child, and
the alternate children are yielded to the hus.
band.
ARCTIC REeroN.-When man desires a
divorce he leaves the house in anger and does
not return for several days. The wife under.
stands the hint, packs her clothes and leaves.
DRUsE AND TURKoMAN.-Among these
people, if wife asks her husbands pernis-
sion to 60 out, and he says &C.," not adding,
"but come back again." she is divorced.
Though both parties desire it, they cannot
live together again without being remarked.
COCHIN CHINA.-If the parties choose to
separate they break pair of chop sticks or
copper coin in the presence of witnesses, by
which action the union is dissolved. The hus.
band must restore to the wife the property be-
longing to her prior to her marriage.
AMERICAN INDIANs.-Among some tribes
the pieces Of sticks given the witnesses Of the
marriage are broken as sign of divorce.
Usually new connections are formed without
the old ones being dissolved. A man never
divorces his wife if she has borne him sons.
TARTARs.-The husband may put away his
partner and seek another, when it pleases
him, and the wife may do the same. If she
is ill.treated, she complains to the magistrate,
who, attended by the principal people, accom-
panies her to the house and pronounces a
formal divorce.
CH1NEsE.--Divorces are allowed in all
cases of criminality, mutual dislike, jealousy,
incompatibility of temper, or too much To-
quacity on the part of the wife. The hus-
band cannot sell his wife until she leaves him
and becomes a slave to him by action Of the
law for desertion. A son is bound to divorce
his wife if she displeases bis parents.
C1RcAss1ANs.-Two kinds of divorce are
granted in Circassia-one total, the other pro-
Visional. When the frstijs allowed, the par
ties can Immediately marry again; where the
second exists the couple agree to separate for
year, and if, at the expiration Of that time,
the husband does not send for his wife, her
relations may command of him total d.
vorce
GREcIANs.-A settlement was usually CIV
en- to wife at marriage for support in case
of divorce. The wife's portion was then re-
stored to her, and the husband required to pay
monthly interest for its use for the time he
detained it from her. Usually the men could
put their wives away on slight occasions.
Even the fear of having too large family
suficed. Divorces scarcely ever occur in
modern Greece.
H1NDoos. party for slight cause
may leave the other and marry. When both
desire it, there is not the least trouble. If a
man calls his wife mother" it is considered
indelicate to live with her again. Among
one tribe, the "Gores," if the wife be unfaith.
full, the husband cannot obtain divorce un.
less he gives her all the property and children.
A woman, on the contrary, may leave when
she pleases, and marry another man, and con-
vey to him the entire property Of the former
husband.
RoMANs.-In olden times man might d.
vorce his wife if she were unfaithful, if she
counterfeited his private keys, or drank with.
out his knowledge. They could divorce their
wives when they pleased. Notwithstanding
this, 521 years elapsed without one divorce.
Afterward law was passed allowing either
sex to make the application. Divorces then
became frequent on the slightest pretexts.
Seneca says that some women no longer reck-
oned the years by the consols, but by the mum:
Der Of their husbands. St. Jerome speaks Of
man who had buried twenty wives, and
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strain the license by penalties. and
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