for the partition loft within that time, by a proportionable cohabitation
with the wife or wives whom he may have left at home, they
having no claim whatever to his cohabitation with them during fuch
period.
I f one wife beftow her turn [of cohabitation] upon another, it is
lawful; becaufe Soolah the daughter of Zooma gave her turn to
Ayjha: but i f a woman give up her turn, fhe is, not at liberty to refume
it, becaufe fhe drops a right which is not as yet eftablifhed in
her, and abfolute deriledtion cannot take place unlefs it be of a right
already eftablifhed,—-wherefore her refumption here is as’ i f fhe were
to withhold from bellowing her turn upon the other.
H E D A T A
H E D J r A .
B O O K III.
Of R I Z A , or F O S T E R A G E .
I Z A , in its legal fenfe, means a child fucking milk from
the breaft o f a woman for a certain time, which is termed the
period offojlerage ■
Prohibition is attached to fofterage, in whatever degree, i f it
be found within the ufual, period of infants fubfifting at the breaft.—
Shaft fays that prohibition is not eftablifhed unlefs the child have
* Fofterage, with refpeól to the prohibitions occafioned by it, is of two kinds; first,
where a woman takes a ftrange child to nurfe, by which all future matrimonial connexion
between that child and the woman, or her relations within thé prohibited degrees, is
rendered illegal; secondly, where a woman nurfes two children, male and female, upon
the fame milk, which prohibits any future matrimonial connexion between them.
Definition of
the term.
Degree of
fofterage
which occa-
fions prohibit
tien.
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