This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. THE ARYAN GENS. (a) The Aryan Household. The Aryan household, in its wider signification, was composed of the cognate parents (father and mother), the legitimate sons (or adopted son), the grandsons and great-grandsons with the lawful wives of all these, the unmarried daughters, sons' daughters and grandsons' daughters, --a brotherless daughter being, in all cases, esteemed equal to a son.1 It included also property2 and slaves.8 It was customary for the son at marriage to depart from the paternal roof and from the father's authority and to enter a new dwelling built for his use.4 He still belonged by agnation to the house of his father and was liable to all the obligations of its members. Although he was from the time of marriage the possessor of a hearth and a free member of the gens, his house did not become fully independent in religious and property matters till the death of the father6 and the final division of the property.6 When it was 1 That the household included definitely these persons will appear in the course of this chapter. Cf. Mommsen, History of Rome, I. ch. V. p. 88. For the four generations, see Isaeus, VIII. 32; Law of Gortyn, V; Baudhayana, II. 5, 10, 1. 2 "Property is apart of the household"; Aristotle, Politics, I. 4, 1 (p. 1253 b, 8 "A complete household consists of slaves and freemen"; id. I. 3, 1. Leist, Altarisches Jus Gentium, p. 34; Graeco-italische Rechtsgeschichte, p. 65; cf. n. 1 of following page. Some exceptions occur. Among the SouthSlavonians, the joint family, in the form of the House-community, is the rule. Cf., however, Krauss, Sitte und Brauch der Sudslaven, p. 114. 6 " He who makes a Craddha-offering while his father is alive, must offer it to those persons to whom his father offers (his (Jraddha)." In...