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feer under promise of marriage is amerced 300,000 cowries, and if 
under promise, in addition to that of marriage, of large presents, 
550,000 cowries. The king takes one half of the fine, the relatives 
of the girl the other. 
The king, here above the law, takes by force the daughters of his 
subjects. The parents do not seem to regret or resent such tyranny 
as they ought; since they generally participate in the exaltation of 
their daughters. 
A rape committed on a virgin is punished by corporal punishment 
and fine, if on a child by a severer fine and corporal infliction ; and 
bv death if the victim should die. 
Most of the Hindu ordinances on this head* are 1 believe to be 
found in the Bali work entitled. TJiotsa Kama hot or the ten 
volumes under the chapter entitled Kamo Soonieecha charaive ra- 
manee seekk,ha pa,thang sama t,hee?/amec. 
The Siamese never banish culprits according to the European 
acceptation of the term, differing essentially in this instance from the 
Chinese. But the latter can better afford to lose subjects. 
The Siamese do however occasionally take offenders to sea and 
set them adrift on a raft. Incest is punished in the latter manner. 
Women are subjected to equal degrees of torture as men. But 
should a woman be pregnant she is confined until her delivery, and 
then a reasonable time being past she receives the awarded punish¬ 
ment. 
Judges who inflict corporal punishment on a pregnant woman are 
punished by a superior tribunals 
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