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*It should also be observed that the daughter of a father's brother
or of a mother's sister might be doubly related to the person
in question. For his father's brother would by law marry a woman of
the same name as the father himself; and the mother's sister
would, by law, marry a man of the same name as the mother
herself; and in both cases two brothers might marry two sisters
and then the first cousins would be then related both by the
father's and the mother's side. But this could never be the case
in relation to the daughter of a father's sister or of a mother's
brother. There is then a manifest and a reasonable purpose
in the exact regulation adopted by the aborigines. And
the wise forethought embodied in the rule affords some ground for supposing
that both polygamy and the double choice [accorded?] to the Ippais
were lawless innovations upon a better rule. If so, before
these innovations crept in, the Law was a wise and salutory one.