| The firstborn child of this levirate marriage is considered the deceased's child. |
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| Clearly for her, the institution of the levirate was of no help, since she would not be able to bear a son for her dead husband's household. |
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| No provision directly punishing forced marriages or levirate is to be found in Beninese law. |
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| Ndebele also practice the custom of levirate, in which men are obligated to support the wives and children of their deceased brothers. |
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| Moreover, the situation should not even arise, since the levirate system still exists in certain areas and polygamy is also practised. |
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| The customary law of Dahomey also contains provisions on marriage by barter and on widowhood, levirate and succession. |
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| Satlow then discusses levirate marriage, polygyny and concubinage. |
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| The levirate, a custom by which a widow marries her deceased husband's brother, was fairly common. |
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| As to family law, the continuing practice of levirate and sororate marriages was a matter of concern. |
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| Child labour and the persistence of the traditional practices of levirate and sororate violate basic human rights. |
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| Therefore, the first marriage could be invalidated ab initio and the wife is freed from a levirate marriage obligation. |
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| Like all women, they are victims of various forms of violence, worsened by customs and traditional beliefs such as forced marriages, female genital mutilation, levirate, physical abuse, just to mention a few. |
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| These include the practice of levirate, which requires women to marry a relative of her deceased spouse, and sororate, where a widower can marry the sister of his deceased spouse. |
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| Other harmful practices such as sororate and levirate marriages or State agents' ill-treatment of street children, detained children or childtrafficking victims should be addressed by the State party. |
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| A number of entrenched, traditional practices undermine human rights. They include forced and early marriages, female circumcision, infibulation, violence against women and children, levirate and sororate. |
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| In Cameroon levirate is especially practiced amongst the people of the North-West and Western Provinces under the premise that the bride price is paid by the husband's family. |
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| Because it was a method for ensuring that each woman and her children had a male provider, levirate marriages increased with the heightened male mortality that resulted when tribes resisted colonial conquest. |
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| The levirate, in which a widow goes to live with a deceased husband's brother and continues to bear children in the name of the dead husband, is also practiced. |
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| Act No. 2002-07 on the Personal and Family Code, adopted on 24 August 2004, targeted polygamy and levirate marriage and promoted freedom of choice of occupation. |
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| In parts of Africa, a widow is remarried to a brother-in-law, a custom known as levirate, originally intended, in part, to provide economic and social support. |
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| In countries practicing the levirate, when a husband falls ill, a brother-in-law may urge HIV testing to be sure that the woman who will become his wife is not infected. |
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| Others that are less widespread include dry sexual intercourse, sororate marriage practices and levirate marriage practices. |
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| A levirate marriage is one where the brother of a dead man is obliged to marry his sibling's widow. |
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| They could either pass their remaining life in widowhood or have some children by levirate or remarry regularly. |
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| Not the sacrificial laws, surely, nor the detailed laws concerning kashrut, mixtures of wool and linen, and levirate marriage. |
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| The levirate is found in patrilineal societies in which the bride marries into her husband's family while essentially severing her ties with her original family. |
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| It is only a secondary purpose of the levirate that the property of the deceased passes on to the one who is heir to his name, and is probably a later accretion. |
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| Idu, the protagonist in the eponymous novel shattered convention by choosing death rather than succumb to a levirate marriage at the demise of her husband. |
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| In the Gospel, the Levirate law governs the conversation between Jesus and some Sadducces. |
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| If died, she performs the ceremony of Halizah but cannot contract a Levirate marriage. |
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