CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921 — Page 215

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is out

wages

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to be disposed of at her own will

tion at the beginning: and

the ques

the Chinese

Mi claus which would supply

mui trai cannot afford

idea

o

to look for a head Some

the ultimate monly value of

Mi girl

aw

marriage may even be considered in the pan. ment made though the Exout ideas under. tying the "deeds of gift"

the formal

documents of transps of & mui trai

are left to the inferred from a companion

of

The many varying conditions War they contains. The deeds take many shapes, down

to the most illiterate, and have little in

common beyond the me of the word "Sung

(present) and the avoidance

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y

mai "(well).

They generally contain conditions as

to marriage :

treatment, and perhaps

as

they may go further and enter the conditions under which reke details of

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