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A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3

Note 124 — Chapter II · THEORY OF THE HORDE AND MOTHER-RIGHT

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Starcke, op. cit., 65; cf. ibid., 229. Fear of the blood-feud through the wife's relatives, as among the Amaxosa, may sometimes act as a check upon the power or brutality of the husband: Rehme, "Das Recht der Amaxosa," ZVR., X, 39, 40.

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