Confined in 
Rembau to 
marriage with 
a foreign Ma- 
lay. 
Position of 
the married 
man. 
Marriage 
settlements by 
man on wife. 
Herta ter: 
bawea. 
Herta pem- 
bawea. 
Wife obtains 
use only of 
above proper- 
sy abil reiias 
marriage. 
86 REMBAU HISTORY, ETC. 
securing the bride, but only in case of dissolving the tie 
between husband and wife, is perhaps to introduce a fresh 
differentium. In Naning the formula read at the wedding 
ceremony following either betrothal or any variety of bride- 
capture, frequently does include this clause:* and conse- 
quently, in that state, the clause is held merely an accident of 
marriage. But a Rembau woman would resent the sugges- 
tion that her marriage formula contained the divorce clause. 
That safeguard in needed, and used, only if a foreign Malay 
(orang dagang) is taken as husband. Hence in Rembau the 
nikah taalk, not only as pregnant with divorce, but as 
confined to foreign alliances, is sharply distinguished from 
any other form of marriage, and is popularly regarded as a 
legitimate rather than a respectable union. 
On marriage a man passes from his mother’s tribe to 
become a lodger in his wife’s hoine. The married man 
belongs, as the saying runs, to the place of his marriage.” 
Loss or gain of married life affects solely the wife.* The 
inter est of his mother’s family in a married man is confined 
to his © life and blood.”’ * 
He does not, however, necessarily, go penniless to his new 
house. 
The property brought by a man to his wife on marriage 
is of two kinds :— 
(1). A share of the ancestral property taken away with 
the consent of lis mother’s family (herta terbawa). 
(2). Property forming his share of the earnings of a 
former matriage, or acquired by him as a bachelor, (herta 
pémbawa). 
All such property must be declared before, or at the 
time of marriage, in the presence of witnesses. From this 
declaration guns, cannon, buffaloes, or gold sheathed weapons 
(1) The Naning formula differs slightly from the Rembau clanse, 
reading ‘‘Kadarat anam bulan, ka- laut sa’ tahun, berpésan tidak, bérita 
tidak tuan Kathi g gugorkan satu talak.” 
(2) v. App. I. Saying IT. (3) v. App. I. Saying XLI. 
(4) v. App. I. Saying XLI. 
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