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passing through fire, drinking poison, &c. ? 11. May they be 
done by deputy? 12. Are they religious acts, as may be 
known by their depending for their efficacy on deities and 
being administered by priests? 13. Is the truth ascertained 
by this means when the accused denies or there is conflict of 
testimony ? 14. Does the ordeal act symbolically, as when a 
weapon is touched with the idea that such a weapon will slay 
the guilty? 15. Does it act directly, as when food is taken 
into the mouth, with the idea that it will choke the guilty ? 
16. Are ordeals fraudulently used by chiefs and priests, so as 
to save their friends and ruin their enemies ? 
E. B. T. 
No. XXXIV.—LAWS. 
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 ? do families or individuals hold 
land ? 4. Whence are titles to land derived ? from having 
brought it into cultivation ? 5. Is there any means of con¬ 
veyance ? 6. May females hold land ? 7. May infants ? 
8. What remedy is there for encroachments on rights of 
property? 8 a. Are any stones or posts placed to mark a 
boundary? 8 b. Is it an offence against the community to 
move one of these ? or is the individual only injured ? 
0 . Game. —9. Is it preserved ? 10. Are rights in it re¬ 
stricted to privileged classes? 11. How are those rights 
maintained? 12. What is the punishment for infringing 
them? (See XLVIII.) 
y. Inheritance (see XXXVI.).—13. To how much of the 
property and rights of the father do eldest sons succeed ? 
14. To how much are youngest sons entitled? 14 a. Is the 
youngest child entitled, as such, to any property ? 15. Have 
daughters any right of inheritance ? 16. Is there any testa¬ 
mentary power ? 17. Generally how far and in what degrees 
are relationships traced, and the devolution of property or 
rights of jurisdiction ascertained. Specially inquire as to 
