OLTI.INKS OF riO('IOI,0<;Y. <•> 



and tor the ivirulatioii of ruiKliict tin- hnv iiiu~( likfwiso de- 

 velop. 



PERSONAL LAW 



A liirge part of pergonal law lM'lonp;s to family law. Per- 

 haps the earliest and lowest form ((f the family is that in 

 which brothers in a uroup marry their own sisters in a 

 irroup : all the brothers are the liii<bniid> <>f all the sisters. 

 The family i^ thus eonipo.><ed of husbands an»l wives, parent- 

 and children. <rrand parents an<l grand children and brother.- 

 and sisters. Collateral lines of kinship are not established. 

 There are no uncles and aunts, no male cousins and no ie- 

 male cousins, and no nephews and neices. This is known 

 as the Punaluan family or system of kinship. 



-Vnothor form, known as the Malayan family or system of 

 kinship, is found involvintr a larger tribe and a higher or- 

 gani/.atiftn. In this, a group of men being brothers, marry a 

 group of women, sisters to each other, but not sisters to the 

 men whom they marry. For the regulation of this form of 

 communal ma. viage. a tribe is divided into clas.ses. Often 

 there an three classes wliieh are divided into male and fe- 

 male — making in all. six. Let the.se be represented by let- 

 ters : A represents a male cla.ss, and A' a femaU' class. The 

 class A are brothers and the class A' are sisters. B repre- 

 sents a class, and IV a class, brothers and sisters; and C and 

 C are like clas.ses. Then the class A, beinu brothers to 

 each other, may not marry their sisters A', but marry the 

 lias- nf women IV who' are sisters to each otiier. The 

 .lass II marry the class C, and the cla.ss C marry the class 

 .v. Now. in tiiis family, di'scent is in the female line. The 

 . hildnn then of A and B' will belong to the class liand B'. 

 the ( hildren of B an<l ( '' will belong to the class (' and C. 

 and the children of (" and A' will belong to the class A and 

 A', and through tht»se cycles the generations pass. 



The kinship .system is furthei- developed in this family, 

 and gives brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers, sons and 

 daughters, grandfathers and grandm<iih( i.-. and grandsons 



