8/27 133-137) has recapitulated the laws of marriage, divorce, &c.; and the curious reader of Selden's Uror Hebraica will recognize many Jewish ordinances.] [Footnote 161: In a memorable case, the Caliph Omar decided that all presumptive evidence was of no avail; and that all the four witnesses must have actually seen stylum in pyxide, (Abulfedae Annales Moslemici, p. Reiske.)] [Footnote 162: Sibi robur ad generationem, quantum triginta viri habent, inesse jacteret: ita ut unica hora posset undecim foeminis satisfacere, ut ex Arabum libris refert Stus. Petrus Paschasius, c.2., (Maracci, Prodromus Alcoran, p.iv.p.55.See likewise Observations de Belon, l.iii.c.10, fol. 179, recto.) Al Jannabi (Gagnier, tom.iii.p. |