Note 739 — Chapter V · EARLY HISTORY OF DIVORCE
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Post, Familienrecht, 251, 252, following the researches of Wilken and Riedel. This rule applies, apparently, only to the Papuas of Geelvinkbai in New Guinea; elsewhere in that island the man may put away the woman at pleasure: Kohler, "Ueber das Recht der Papuas auf Neu-Guinea," in ZVR., VII, 373. In general cf. Westermarck, op. cit., 517.