Customary laws and practices of the Maram Nagas
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2013-05-01
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Customary laws in the social institutions, Moral laws, fornication, adultery, rape, seducement, house pollution, elopement, touching of breast by force, accusation, Social prohibition or taboo, Civil, criminal and non-criminal laws, Ridicule, insult, dispute, slander, tease and taunt, Criminal, assault, beating or thrashing, physical assault, attempt to kill, physical assault of person inside the house, to kill, warfare, Cases considered non-criminal, customary laws, defending a person who tries to enter one's house, killing a person who enters a house to steal, resisting an enemy, killing an enemy,curse, mutual agreement to kill other, stealing, arson, payment of debts,demand for restitution, public works, telling lie, threaten to kill a person with poison, accusation of witchcraft, kill in exchange, Laws of marriage and divorce, pre-marital contract for son-in-law, giving consent to go as daughter-in-law, forms of marriage, noukatchu, marriage ceremony, staying in her lover's house, Sleep by entering, baiting for a life partner, providing an additional life partner, second wife, marriage through elopement, formal negotiation, laws of monogamy, polygamous marriage, exogamous marriage, polyandry, adoption, divorce, shuneibarn-katou, marriage within the forbidden degree of affinity, Laws of inheritance, origin of patrilineal system, right of elders and clan members, duties and responsibilities of elders and clan members, ownership of property, rights of inheritance, disinheritance, position of wife in a maram family, right of possession of property by the woman, wills, rights of parents in the choice of heir, landed property and movable property, landed property, Laws governing birth and death, rejoicing accompanying the birth, means of having children, naming miscarriage misfortune of dying, death and obsequies moment of death, announcing of death sequel to funeral grave burial,, taboos in death ceremony