Note 737 — Chapter V · EARLY HISTORY OF DIVORCE
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The old Indie law does not recognize a proper divorce, though the husband may "supersede" his wife; but sometimes by the existing custom of Indian peoples it is allowed: Kohler, in ZVR., III, 384, 386 ff.; VII, 236; XI, 169. Cf. Friedrichs, ibid., X, 251; Westermarck, op. cit., 525; Letourneau, op. cit., 301, 302.