DU MARIAGE
Leges Wall., cod. Démet. T. 1. L. II, n. 1-2, p. 515.
If a man take a wife by gift of kindred , and he désert her before the end of the seven years ; let him pay her three pounds , as her agweddi , if she be the daugther of a breyr; and one pound and a half as her cowyll; and six score pence, as her gobyr : if she be the daugther of a taeog, one pound and a half, as her agweddi ; six score pence, as her cowyll ; and twenty four pence , as her gobyr.
If, after the seven years, he leavc her; let ail be shared between them, unless privilèges should give precedence to the husband : l\vo parts of the children go to the husband, and the third to the mother ; the eldest and the youngestgo lo llic father. If they be separated by dealh, let every thing be equally shared between them.
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Uni., cod. VriK-.l 1. 1, [i s."> , ci cod, Guenl, AU,, p. "I". àppeod.
io. Should her busband be leprous, or bave fetid breatb, or be incapable of marital duties; if on aocoonl ofoneof thèse thrae Ihingsshe leave her husband, she is lo hâve tbe wbole of lier property.
M. If by dving they pari, she is tO havo every thing in two portions, exropt tho corn ; no wife in tbe World is to bave a Bbare of tlic corn, but and espoused wife.
1 2. If b\ dying and liying then Beparate, lel tbe sicU. aided by thc confcssor, share , and lot the bealthy cbooee.
t3. The Bkk is not to bequeath aughl , exoept a daored to thc chorch and an ebediw to tbe lord , and 1rs debta : and , should ho bequeatfa . tho son can break the bequest; andsoch a one is called tho uncourteous son. Whoever therefore shall break a légal beqaeal , whetber daercd or dobts shall be excommunicated , as a publican or pa§an.
i i. If Living they separete, lot her and her propertv romain in thehouse to tho end of nine days and nine DÎghts, to ascertain whether tho séparation be légal; and if the séparation be right, at the end of thc ointh day, let lier property go before , and, afler the last penny, let her go herself.
18 Tbe saraad of a married woman is according to tho privilège of the husband ; that is, a third of her husband saraad : before she is betrothed to a man, il is aocording to Ihe privilège of her brother's saraad ; that is, half the saraad of her brother.
16. lier galanas. whether married or not, is half the galanas of lier brother.
IT. If the husband take another wife, afterhe shall have partcdfiom the firstwife, the 6rst is froc.
18. If a man part from liis wife. and she be minded to take another busband, and thc first husband should repent having partod from his wife, and overtake lier wih one foot in the bed and the other outside the lied , the prior husband is to hâve the « oman .
Ibid., cod. Vened, T. 1. L. II. Ch. 1, n. 5G, p. 96.
A woman cannot be admitted as surety, or vvitness concerning a man.
Ibid., cod. Vcned. T. I, L. 11. Ch. 1, n. 60, p. 98.
A woman ought neither to buy nor sell wilhout consent of the husband unless she be a proprietrix : if she be a proprietrix , however, she may buy and sell.
Ibid., cod. Démet T. I L. 1, Ch. 18, n. ô, p. :,17; et T. 11, n. 31, p. 148.
If a wife utter a barsh , or diagraceful vvord to lier husband ; let lier pay to the husband three kine as Camlwrw, for he is her lord; or, let hiui stiike lier three blows, with a rod of his cubit length , on any part he may will, excepling her head.
Ibid,, T. Il, n. .'(0, |>. 8i«.
Mulier eiit secundum viri sui dignilatem ex quo ci data fuciit; si cum viro alio coierit, et hoc notum fuerit.a suo polerit libère ropudiari. née de jure quicquam hnhebit prêter tria que sibi auferri non possunt : adulter quidem viro prefato &uum iiaet redda'.
Ibid., cod. Démet. T. 1. L. II. Cli. XVII, n. i, p. 515.
A man is free to forsake his wife if she notoriously atlach herself to anotlier man ; and she is to obtain of her right , excepting the Ihree things wich are not to be taken from a woman ; and the seducer is to pay to the lawful husband his saraad.
Ibid., cod. Vcned. T. I, n. 3, p. 81.
« Of the children two shares to llie father, and one to the molher; the oldest and the Youngest to the father and the middlemost to the mother. » « Their debts let them pay in equal shares. »
Ibid., cod. Gucnl. T. I, n. 14, p. 545.
« If they be separated by death , every thing is to be equally shared between them. »
