Ifugao Law / (In American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 15, No. 1)
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Chapters (87)
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Ifugaos
- Sources of Ifugao Law and its Present Status of Development
- The Family Law
- Marriage
- Remarriage of the Widowed
- Datok6
- Divorce
- The Hudhud Indemnity
- Dependents in Relation to Family Law
- Illegitimate Children
- Reciprocal Obligations of Parents and Their Children
- The Property Law
- The Kinds of Property
- Family Property
- Personal Property
- Perpetual Tenure
- Transient Tenure
- Transfers of Property for a Consideration
- A. Transactions in the Purchase of a Field in the Kiangan Area
- I. Payments on the property
- II. Fees (lukbu) of the principal witnesses
- III. Advance interest paid to the seller
- IV. Gifts to the seller’s kin
- I. Payments on the property
- II. Additional payments made to the seller, his kindred, and the witnesses after payments of purchase price but before the ibuy feast
- III. Payments at ibuy ceremony
- Transfers of Property Arising from Family Relationships
- Settlement of Debts of the Aged and Deceased
- Borrowing and Lending
- Go-betweens
- Contracts for the Sale of Property
- Irrigation Law
- Penal Law
- Penalties
- Tabulation Showing the Payment Exacted for Adultery in Its Various Degrees and for Individuals of Different Rank
- Na-onom or “six” fine
- Na-onom or “six” fine
- Na-onom or “six” fine
- Hin-bakid or “ten” fine
- Hin-bakid or “ten” fine
- Na-onom or “six” fine
- Circumstances Which Affect Penalty
- Penal Responsibility
- Other Factors Affecting Liability
- The Principal Crimes and their Frequency
- Sorcery
- Adultery
- The Taking of Life
- The Labod Fine
- Labod Fine for Malicious Killing of a Pig
- Putting Another in the Position of an Accomplice
- Theft
- Arson
- Kidnapping
- Incest
- Rape
- Kadangyang class
- Middle class
- Very poor
- Ma-hailyu or Minor Offenses
- Kadangyang class
- Middle class
- Very poor
- Procedure
- The Family in Relation to Procedure
- The Monkalun or Go-between
- Testimony
- Ordeals
- Execution of Justice
- The Paowa or Truce
- Termination of Controversies: Peace-making
- An Inter-village Law
- Appendices
- Appendix 1: Ifugao Reckoning of Relationship
- Appendix 2: Connection of Religion with Procedure
- Appendix 3: Parricide
- Appendix 4: Concubinage among the Kalingas
- Glossary1
- Plates
- Colophon
- Availability
- Encoding
- Revision History
- External References
- Corrections
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