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Thus, at last, the functions of the primitive assembly, originally 

 legislative, executive, and judicial, are differentiated, and the legis- 

 lature, the ruler, and the court are established. 



THE COURSE OF EVOLUTION OF LAW. 



In the development of the tribe into the nation, conduct develops 

 from extreme simplicity to extreme complexity, and for the regula- 

 tion of conduct the law must likewise develop. 



PERSONAL LAW. 



A large part of personal law belongs to family law. Perhaps the 

 earliest and lowest form of the family is that in which brothers in a 

 group marry their own sisters in a group : all the brothers are the 

 husbands of all the sisters. The family is thus composed of hus- 

 bands and wives, parents and children, grandparents and grand- 

 children, and brothers and sisters. Collateral lines of kinship are 

 not established. There are no uncles and aunts, no male cousins 

 and female cousins, and no nephews and neices. This is known as 

 the Punaluan family, or system of kinship. 



Another form, known as the Malayan family, or system of kinship, 

 is found, involving a larger tribe and a higher organization. In 

 this, a group of men, being brothers, marry a group of women, 

 sisters to one another, but not sisters to the men whom they marry. 

 For the regulation of this form of communal marriage a tribe is 

 divided into classes. Often there are three classes, which are di- 

 vided into male and female — making in all, six. Let these be 

 represented by letters : A represents a male class, and A 1 a female 

 class. The class A are brothers and the class A 1 are their sisters. B 

 represents a class, and B 1 a class, brothers and sisters ; and C and 

 C 1 are like classes. Then the class A, being brothers to one another, 

 may not marry their sisters A 1 , but marry the class of women B 1 

 who are sisters to one another. The class B marry the class C, and 

 the class C marry the class A 1 . Now, in this family, descent is in 

 the female line. The children then of A and B l will belong to the 



