DIVORCE IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1213, 5 August 1884, Page 3

DIVORCE IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES.

Jews.—ln olden times the Jews had a discretionary power of divorcing their

wives. Javans—lfthe wife be dissatisfied she can obtain a divorce by paying a certain sum. Thibetai t. —Divorces are seldom allowed, unlws ita the consent of both parties, n ither of whom can afterwards marry. Moors.—lf the wife does not become the mother of a boy she may be divorced with the consent of the tribe, and she may marry again. Abysscians.— No form of marriage is necessary. The connection may be dissolved and renewed as often as the parties think proper. Siberians. —If a man be dissatisfied with

the most trifling acts of his wife, be tears her cap or veil from her head, and this constitutes a divorce. Corean.—The husband can divorce bis wife and treasure, and leave her the charge of maintaining the children. If she prove unfaithful he may put her to death. Siamese. The first wife may be divorced, not sold, as the others may be. She then may claim the first, third, and fifth children, and the alternate children ere yielded to the husband. Arctic Region.— vVhen a man desires a divorce he leaves the house in anger, and does not return for several days. The wife understands tho hint, packs up her clothes and leaves. Druse and Turcoman. —Among these people, if she asks her husband’s pefmisston to go out, and he says ‘‘go,” without adding, “but come back again,” she is divorced. Though both parties desire it they cannot live together again without beiug re-married. Cochin China. —lf the parties choose to separate they break a pair of chopping sticks.or a copper coin in the presence of witnesses, by which action the union is dissolved. The husband must return to the wife the property belonging to her prior to her marriage. American Indians. —Among some tribes the pieces of sticks given the witnesses of the marriage are broken as a sign of divorce. Usually new connections are formed, the cld ones being dissolved. A man never divorces his wife if she has borne him sons. Tartary.—The husband may put away his partner and seek another when it pleases him, and the wife may do the same. If she be 111-treated she complains to the magistrate, who, attended by the. (.rineipal people, accompanies her to tho house and pronounces a formal divorce. Chinese. —Divorces are allowed in all cases of criminality, mutual dislike, jealously, incompatability of temper, and too much incapacity on the part of the wife. The husband cannot sell his wife till she leaves him, and becomes a slave to h'tu by action of the law for desertion. A son is Wound to divorce his wife if she displease his parents. Gieciun. —A settlement was usually given to the wife at marriage forsuppoil in case of a divoice. The wife’s portion was then restored to her, and the husband required to pay monthly interest for the time he detained it from her. Usually the men could put their wives away on slight occasions. Even the fear of having roo large a family sufficed. Divorces now scarcely ever occur in modern Greece. Hindoos.-Either party for a slight cause may leave the other and marry. When both desire it there is not the least trouble. If a man calls his wife “ mother,’ it is considered indelicate to live with hei again.—S.F. Bulletin.