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The privileges of the husband over the wife 

 in this matter are survivals from the time 

 when these obligations were wholly on one 

 side. 



(d) Affiliation following on a double marriage. 

 In some countries, under the old system, a 

 child could only succeed to the property of 

 his parents if he resided with them (ex- 

 cepting in quite exceptional cases). Hence 

 there arose marriages by exchange. In 

 order to compensate the children, the two 

 families, if each had a son and daughter, 

 exchanged them, and bestowed the rights 

 of one upon the other. Under the new law 

 these rights could not be legally claimed, 

 and yet even in the present century they 

 are not wholly unknown. The last mar- 

 riage by exchange was probably that 

 mentioned by Dupin 1 which took place at 

 Gacogne (NieVre) in 1839. 



In conclusion then, we have found that while 

 the legislative systems of modern races tend to 

 become more and more alike in main principle, we 

 can yet find vestiges, more or less faint and dis- 

 torted, but quite recognizable, of the different 

 institutions which dominated the earlier conditions 

 of the different races. 



1 Viollet, Histoire du droit civil franqais, p. 491. 



