Note 819 — Chapter V · EARLY HISTORY OF DIVORCE
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See especially on Arabian divorce, Smith, Kinship and Marriage, 91 ff., who emphasizes the effect of wife-purchase. Compare Post, Familienrecht, 263. Among the Kabyles of Algiers for mistreatment the woman has the right of "insurrection;" she may return to her father's house; but without the consent of her husband she cannot remarry: Letourneau, L'évolution du mariage, 295. Cf. Hanoteau et Letourneux, Kabylie, II, 159, 164, 177 ff. The custom of insurrection appears to be general in Islam: Hellwald, Die mensch. Familie, 409.