The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-10-14
DIVORCES.
The Laws Concerning Them In Different
Countries.

Countries.
AUsTRALIANs.-Divo have never
been sanctioned in Australia.
JEws.-In olden times the Jews had a
discretionary power of divorcing their
wives.
JAvANs.-If the wife be dissatisfied
she can obtain q divorce by paying
certain sum.
THIBETANs.-Divorc are seldom al
lowed, unless with the consent of both
parties, neither of whom can afterward
remarry.
Moons If the wife does not become
the mother of boy she may be divorced
with the consent of the tribe, and sbe
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.-Ift the man be dissatisfied
with the most trifing acts of his wife,
he tears her cap or vail from her head,
and this constitutes divorce.
CoREAN.-The husband can divorce
his wife or treasure, and leave her the
charge of maintaining the children. If
she proves unfaithful, he can put her to
death.
SIAMEsE.-The first wife may be di-
vorced, not sold, as the Others may be.
She then may claim the first, third and
| fifth child, and the alternate children are
yielded 10 the husband.
ARCTIC REGION.-When man desires
a divorce he leaves the house in anger,
and does not return for several days.
The wife understands the hint, packs
her clothes and leaves.
DRUsE AND TURKoMAN. - Among
these people, if a wife asks her hus-
bands permission to go out, and he says
60" vii hout adding but come back
again." she is divorced. Though both
parties desire it,, they cannot live to-
gether again without being remarked.
COCHIN CHINA.-lf the parties choose
to separate they break pair of chop
sticks or a copper coin in the presence
is dissolved. The husband must restore
to theswife the property belonging to her
prior to her marriage.
AMERICAN 1NDIANs.-Among some
tribes the pieces of sticks given the wit
nesses OF the marriage are broken as a
sign of divorce. Usually new connec-
tions 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, AID the wife may do the
same. If she be ill-treated, she COM
plains to the magistrate, who, attended
by the principal people, accompanies
her to the house and pronounces
formal divorce.
CHINESE Divorces are allowed in
all cases of criminality, mutual dislike,
jealousy, incompatibility of temper, or
too much loquacity on the part of the
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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 displeasas his parents.
CIRCASSIANS.-Two kinds of divorce
are granted in Circassia-one total, the
other provisional. When the first is
allowed the parties 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 a
total divorce.
GRECIANs. "A settlement was usually
given to wife at marriage for support
in case of divorce. The wife's portion
was then restored to her, and the hus-
band required to pay monthly interest
for its use during 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 fam
lily sufficed. Divorces scarcely ever
occur in modern Greece.
HINDoos.-Either party for slight
cause may leave the other and marry.
When both desire it there is not the
least trouble. If man calls his wife
6 mother" it is considered indelicate to
live with her again. Among one tribe,
the " Cores" if the wife be unfaithful,
&c husband cannot obtain divorce
unless he gives her all the property and
children. A woman, on the contrary,
may leave when she pleases, aud marry
another man, and convey to him the en-.
tire property OF her former husband.
RoMANs.-In olden times man might
divorce his wife if she were unfaithful,
il she counterfeited his private KEYS, or
drank without his knowledge. They
would divorce their wives when they
pleased. Notwithstanding this, 52l
years elapsed without one divorce.
Afterward a 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 reckoned the
year by the consols, but by the number
of their husbands. st. Jerome speaks
OF a man who had buried twenty wives,
and woman who had buried twenty
two husbands. The Emperor Augustus
endeavored to restrain the license by