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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. 
u. 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 ? 8a. Are any 
stones or posts placed to mark a boundary ? 85. Is it an 
offence against the community to move one of these ? or is the 
individual only injured ? 
f3. 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 ? 14a. 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 enquire as to 
