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case they make out no receipts showing the property given to the husband 

 and the wife; they only give the document of such property to the married 

 couple. 



After the marriage of the husband and wife they must build a house 

 of their own and they themselves secure their own food. 



Now if one of them dies and they have a son he will inherit their 

 property; the son himself has the only right to keep all their property. 



But if one dies and they have no son to inherit the property, the 

 property that had been awarded cannot be given to the one left until the 

 end of the offering done by their relatives according to custom. 98 



If the married couple had accumulated or earned property besides the 

 awarded property, that property will be divided between the two of them. 



There are other habits or customs inherited from our forefathers that 

 we can hardly relate, especially the customs regarding the Igorot canao. 



HISTORY THAT TELLS HOW THE QUARRELS OF THE HUSBAND AND WIFE ARE 



REGULATED 



It is the habit of the married couple, when they have a quarrel and 

 want to be divorced, that the case is told to the old men of the town who 

 assemble at the abong. They talk about it, and the husband and wife are 

 forced to agree and be united together again. During this, the old men 

 in the abong, who are settling this case, compel the married couple to kill 

 a goat or a hog which the old men will eat as their punishment [that is, 

 of the couple] and in payment for the good advice given by the old men. 

 If it is not agreed that the husband and wife be united, the married couple 

 are sent to the tribunal (presidencia) to settle the question. 



STORY OF A MAN WHO IS A WRONG DOER, SUCH AS ONE LIVING IN CONCUBINAGE 

 (A MAN WHO LIVES WITHOUT BEING LEGALLY MARRIED), AND THIEVES 



If a man is found to be living in concubinage, it is our custom not to 

 complain against him to the tribunal (presidencia), but we gather all 

 the old men, principales, of the township regarding this matter; the old 

 men advise him not to do this same thing again. In this meeting or 

 assembling of the old men a goat or a hog must be furnished, and they 

 eat it according to their customs. But, if he is found doing the same thing 

 again, he will be complained against before the tribunal." 



Now, if there is a man found who stole something, he will be counseled 

 just the same as in the case of concubinage and be forced to return to the 

 owner the thing he stole from him; he must suffer the punishment that 

 the old men impose together with what advice they may give him. Such 

 a case will not be reported to the police or to the justice of the peace if it 

 is the first time that the person has stolen something, but if he does it again 



" Compare the inheritance customs as described in Blair and Robertson, 

 ut supra: 5, 153 (Loarca, Relation, ca. 1580) ; 7, 181, 182 (Plasencia, 

 Customs of the Tagalogs, 1589); 16, 125, 127 (Morga, Sucesos, 1609); 

 and in Jenks, Pub. P. I. Ethnol. Surv. (1905), 1, 164, 165. 



" Cf. Blair and Robertson, ut supra: 5, 177-179 (Loarca, Relation, ca. 

 1580); 7, 182, 187 (Plasencia, Customs of the Tagalogs, 1589); 16, 126 

 (Morga, Sucesos, 1609). See 5, 125, for the Visayan myth of the origin 

 of concubinage. 



