CONTENTS xin 



Part III. General Sociological Culture — Continued. 

 Chapter XIX. Political organization — Continued. 



General principles — Continued. p 



Securing the defendant's good will 157 



Foundations of Man6bo law 157 



Customary law 158 



Its natural basis 15g 



Its religious basis 158 



Proprietary laws and obligations I59 



Conception of property rights 159 



Land and other property 159 



Laws of contract 161 



The law of debt 161 



Interest, loans, and pledges I63 



Interest , 163 



Loans and pledges 164 



Laws of liability 164 



Liability arising from natural causes 164 



Liability arising from religious causes 164 



Liability arising from magic causes 165 



The system of fines 165 



Chapter XX. Political organization: Customs regulating domestic relations and family property; 



procedure for the attainment of justice 167 



Family property 167 



Rules of inheritance 167 



Rules governing the relations of the sexes 167 



Moral offenses 167 



Marriage contracts and payments 168 



Illegitimate children 169 



Extent of authority of father and husband 169 



Residence of the husband 169 



Crimes and their penalties 169 



Crimes 169 



The private seizure 170 



Penalties for minor offenses 170 



Customary procedure 170 



Preliminaries to arbitration 170 



General features of a greater arbitration 172 



Determination of guilt 173 



By witnesses 173 



By oaths 173 



By the testimony of the accused 173 



By ordeals 174 



The hot-water ordeal 174 



The diving ordeal 174 



The candle ordeal 174 



By circumstantial evidence 174 



Enforcement of the sentence 175 



Chapter XXI. Political organization: Intertribal and other relations 176 



Intertribal relations 176 



Interclan relations 177 



External commercial relations 178 



Exploitation by Christian natives 178 



Exploitation by falsification 178 



Defraudation by usury and excessive prices 179 



Exploitation by the system of commutation 179 



Wheedling or the pu&nak system 180 



Bartering transactions 180 



General conditions of trading 181 



Internal commercial relations 182 



Money and substitutes for it 182 



Prevailing Man6bo prices 183 



Weights and measures 183 



