Note 671 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT

According to Post, Familienrecht, 205, the purpose is always Familienverbindungen anzuknüpfen; and usually the betrothed bride is held strictly to a life of chastity, even among peoples where such is not the custom for girls: Post, op. cit., 212, 213; Lippert, Geschichte der Familie, 149, 150. Of this, good examples are found in the South Sea: Kohler, "Studien," ZVR., V, 356; see also Starcke, Primitive Family, 212, 256, 257; Wake, Marriage and Kinship, 78-80; Post, Geschlechtsgenossenschaft, 80; Ursprung, 57; Anfänge des Staats- und Rechtslebens, 35; Afrikanische Jurisprudenz, I, 365-71; Westermarck, op. cit., 213, 214. On early betrothals see further Kohler, in ZVR., V, 342, (Aleuts); VI, 166 (Burma); VII, 352 (Australia), 372 (New Guinea); X, 99-103, 116 (Bombay); XI, 164 (India); Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Cent. Australia, 558.