Note 703 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT
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See Westermarck, op. cit., 218-20, and the many examples there mentioned, with citation of the sources; and compare Post, Familienrecht, 166, 168, 169, passim; Kohler, in ZVR., V, 354 ff.; Wake, op. cit., 215, 216; Prjévalski, Mongolie et pays des Tangoutes (1880), 47, 207; Huc, Travels in Tartary, I, 52, 185. For female choice in Australia: Fison and Howitt, Kamilaroi and Kurnai, 234, 242, 326, 327 (Kurnai); 276, 280, 289, 348-54 (elopement). The Kalmuck wife is a free woman: Koehne, "Das Recht der Kalmücken," ZVR., IX, 463; and Wake gives interesting proofs of the coexistence of real affection with polygyny and purchase: op. cit., 218.