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they may earn is regularly acquired for the man to whom they 

 belong.&quot; 



And according to kelson s View of the Hindu law, this rela 

 tionship still continues. 



&quot; It is the undoubted fact that among the so-called Hindus of the 

 Madras province the Father is looked upon by all at the present day as 

 the Rajah or absolute sovereign of the family . . . He is entitled to 

 reverence during life, as he is to worship after his death. His word is 

 law, to be obeyed without question or demur.* 



Alleging a parallelism between this state of things among 

 the Hindus and that among the primitive Teutons, Sir 

 Henry Maine writes : 



&quot;The precinct of the family dwelling-house could be entered by 

 nobody but himself [the father] and those under his patria potestas, 

 not even by officers of the law, for he himself made law within and 

 enforced law made without.&quot; 



Elsewhere quoting the Slavonian maxim that &quot; A father is 

 like an earthly god to his son,&quot; Sir Henry Maine gives a 

 kindred account of the patriapotestas of the early Romans ; 

 but this may be most conveniently summarized in the words 

 of Duruy. 



&quot;The father of the family ! It is always he who is mentioned, for 

 there is no one else in the house, wife, children, clients, slaves, all are 

 only chattels, instruments of labour, persons without will and without 

 name, subjected to the omnipotence of the father. At once priest and 

 judge, his authority is absolute ; he alone is in communication with 

 the gods, for he alone performs the sacra privata, and, as master, he 

 disposes of the powers and life of his slaves. As husband he condemns 

 his wife to death if she forges false keys or violates her vow. . . . As 

 father he kills the child that is born deformed, and sells the others, as 

 many as three times, before losing his claims upon them. Neither age 

 nor dignities emancipate them.&quot; 



It goes without saying that the father was the absolute regu 

 lator of industry. Wife and children were in the same 

 position as bond-servants. Their acts were controlled just as 

 much as the acts of cattle were controlled. 



7Y6. That a kindred relationship obtained during early 



