Note 509 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT
Reading edition
Carver, Travels, 374; Letourneau, L'évolution du mariage, 118; Lubbock, Origin of Civilization, 85. A similar custom exists among the Khands of Orissa: Lubbock, op. cit., 114; McLennan, Studies, I, 13-15; Post, Familienrecht, 144.