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No. XXXV.—LAWS. 
By E. W. BRABROOK, Esq. 
a. Land. —1. Are there any territorial divisions? 2. Does 
the whole of the land belong to the chiefs ? 3. Is there a 
separate class of landowners? 4. Whence are titles to land 
derived? 5. Is there any means of conveyance? 6. May 
females hold land? 7. May infants? 8. What remedy is 
there for encroachments on rights of property ? 
/3. Game. —9. Is it preserved ? 10. Are rights in it restricted 
to privileged classes ? 11. How are those rights maintained ? 
12. What is the punishment for infringing them ? (See XLIII.) 
y. Inheritance (see XXXIV.).-—13. To how much of the 
property and rights of the father do eldest sons succeed ? 14. 
To how much are younger sons entitled ? 1*5. Have daughters 
any right of inheritance ? 16. Is there any testamentary power ? 
17. Generally how far and in what degrees are relationships 
traced, and the devolution of property or rights of jurisdiction 
ascertained ? 
d. Administration of justice. —18. Are courts held for the 
trial of offenders ? 19. Are there any officers appointed for the 
purpose of administering justice ? 20. Is there any recognized 
principle of procedure? 21. Must the accused be present? 
22. Is he subjected to torture? 23. Must a confession be ob¬ 
tained before conviction ? 24. Is there any ceremony analogous 
to the taking an oath by witnesses ? 25. How is perjury dealt 
with ? 
€. Punishments. —26. By what authority inflicted? 27. By 
what means executed ? 28. Death: for what crimes ? how 
suffered ? 29. Is taliation (“ an eye for an eye, and a tooth for 
a tooth”) acted upon? 30. Mutilation : for what crimes? and 
how inflicted ? 31. Flogging. 32. Mulcts or penalties: for 
what offences ? how recovered ? to whose benefit applied ? 
33. Imprisonment: how enforced ? for what periods ? with 
what consequences? 34. Other punishments, if any. 35. Is 
private revenge permitted ? 36. Generally, is justice admini¬ 
stered with severity or with clemency, with caprice or with 
regularity ? are the laws respected ? are they undergoing im¬ 
provement ? and what is their influence on the character of the 
people ? 
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