The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-11-03
DIVORCES.
The Laws COncerning Them In Different
Countries

AaAO - W" NSAA~ - -
AUsTRALIANs.-D have never
been sanctioned in Australia.
.JEws.-In olden times the Jews had
discretionary power of divorcing their
wives.
JAvANs.-If the wife be dissatisfied
she can obtain divorce by paying a
certain sum.
THIBETANs. are seldom al
lowed, unless with the consent of both
parties, neither of whom can afterward
remarrv.
Moons. 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.
ABYssINIANS.-No o 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. 1t
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 q 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 wife asks her hus-
bsnRl's permission to go out, and he says
"Go," without adding but come back
again." she is divorced. Though both
parties desire it, they cannot live to-
gether again without being remarked.
COCHIN CHINA.-If the parties choose
to separate they break q pair of chop
sticks or a copper coin in the presence
,, of witnesses, by which action the union
is dissolved. The husband must restore
, to theswife the property belonging to her
, prior to her marriage.
, AMERICAN INDIANS. 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, and the wife may do the
: same. II she be ill-treated, she COM
!, plains to the magistrate, who, attended
by the principal people, accompanies
> her to the house and pronounces a
:. formal divorce.
: CHINEsE.-Divorces are allowed in
: !, ali cases of criminality, mutual dislike,
y jealousy, incompatibility of temper, or
q too much loquacity on the part of the
: wife. The husband cannot sell his wife
- until she leaves him, and becomes a
r slave to him by action of the law for
! u desertion. A son is bound to divorce
= his wife if she displeases his parents.
. CIRCAssIANs.-Two kinds of divorce
= are granted in Circassia-one total, the
p 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,
y the husband does not send for his wife,
u her relations may command of him q
y total divorce.
GRECIANs.-A settlement was usually
given to a wife at marriage for support
- in case of a 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 i
y from her. Usually the men could pu
re their wives away on slight occasions
Even the fear of having too large fam
ID lily suficed. Divorces scarcely eve
l. occur in modern Greece.
a HMDoOs.-Either party for sligh
cause may leave the other and marry
1T When both desire it there is not tn
1t least trouble. If man calls his viii
TX mother" it is considered indelicate t.
live with her again. Among one tribe
as the " Cores" it the wife be untaithtu
in ie husband cannot obtain II divorc
OF unless he gives her all the property an
sh children. A woman, on the contrary
may leave when she pleases, aud MARI
nd another man, and convey to him the en-
to tire property OF her former husband.
in ROMANS. I'm olden times man Nigh
o. divorce his wife if she were unfaithfu
% if she counterfeited his private keys, G
drank without his knowledge. The
would divorce their wives when the
pleased. Notwithstanding this, 81
he years elapsed without one divorces
ng Afterward a law was passed allowin
sh either sex to make the application
a Divorces then became frequent on III
slightest pretexts. Seneca says thu
some women no longer reckoned II
,th wear by the consols, but by the numbC
lie of their husbands. st. Jerome speah
ch OF a man who had buried twenty wive
nd and a woman who had buried tWent.
ct two husbands. The Emperor Augustl
~. endeavored to restrain the license
penalties Bench and Bar.
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