Includes bibliographical references (p. 162) and index.
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committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- The family -- General observation -- Age of majority -- Status of women -- Adoption -- The Seotla beast -- Circumcision -- Reporting of death and morning customs -- The heir -- Wills, allocations, donation -- Marriage and separation -- General observation -- Marriage under civil la and Sotho Law -- Child betrothals and 'beacons' -- Parents' consent -- Dowry cattle -- Who pays dowry? -- The wedding ceremony -- Legitimation of pre-marital child at later marriage of mother -- Planned marriages -- Seantl -- Kenelo -- Anulment of marriage -- The Ngala cuatom -- Separation of wife from husband while remaining in his family -- Reasonds for divorce -- Formalities of divorce -- Division of estate on divorce or separation -- Administration -- Paramount chieftainship -- Chieftainship -- Chieftainship boundaries -- Lawful orders -- Hindering of messengers -- Village affairs -- Forcible removals -- Removers' goods -- 'Eating up' -- Paballo -- Land and use -- Grazing and Maboella -- Stray stock -- Pounds and trespass -- Mafisa -- Earmarks -- Cattle-posts -- Pigs -- Tenute of Arable lands -- Half-shares ploughing -- Trees -- Gardens -- Sites -- Liremo -- Crimes, delict and miscellaneous -- Criminal liability -- Assault -- Homicide and murder -- Phephetso ea tsollo ea mali -- Chobeliso and kemariso -- Defamation and abusive language -- Stock theft -- Damages by animals -- 'Turning the door of the hut' -- A debt never dies -- The law of Lerotholi.