Ifugao Law

About this eBook

Author

Barton, Roy Franklin, 1883-1947

Title

Ifugao Law (In American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 15, No. 1)

Credits

Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia

Subject

Law, Primitive -- Philippines

Category

Text

eBook-No.

40807

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40807

Release Date

September 20, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Contents
3. 3.Preface
4. 4.Introduction — The Ifugaos — Sources of Ifugao Law and its Present Status of Development
5. 5.The Family Law — Marriage — Remarriage of the Widowed — Datok 6 — Divorce — The Hudhud Indemnity — Dependents in Relation to Family Law — Illegitimate Children — Reciprocal Obligations of Parents and Their Children
6. 6.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
7. 7.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
8. 8.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
9. 9.Appendices — Appendix 1: Ifugao Reckoning of Relationship — Appendix 2: Connection of Religion with Procedure — Appendix 3: Parricide — Appendix 4: Concubinage among the Kalingas
10. 10.Glossary 1
11. 11.Plates
12. 12.Colophon — Availability — Encoding — Revision History — External References — Corrections

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