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Updated: May 22, 2025
A woman married under the beena form lives in the house or immediate neighbourhood of her parents, and if so married she has the right of inheritance along with her brothers; but if married in deega she goes to live in her husband’s house and village and loses her rights in her own family. Marsden, History of Sumatra, pp. 225-227. Forbes, Eleven Years in Ceylon, Vol. I, p. 333.
There is a complicated system of payments, on which the husband’s rights to take the wife to his home depends. In Ceylon, again, there are two forms of marriage, called beena and deega, which cause a marked difference in the position of the wife.
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