Notes and queries on anthropology / edited for the Council of the Anthropological Institute by John George Garson, M.D. and Charles Hercules Read, F.S.A.

Date:
1892
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    passing; through fire, drinking poison, &c. ? ] 1. May they be (lone by deputy '( 12. Are they religious acts, as may be known by their depending for their eflicacy 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 1 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 che 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 enci'oachments on rights of property ? 8a. Are any stones or posts placed to mark a boundary ? 8b. Is it an offence against the community to move one of these ? or is the individual only injured ? /3. 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 tliem ? (See XLVIII.) y. Inkei-itance. (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 jm-isdiction ascertained. Specially enquire as to