ABSTRACT
So far we have discussed conjugal patterns associated with baal marriage of dominion. Such conjugal forms transfer a woman from her natal kin to her husband’s abode, which falls under exogamous marriage. The husband pays an appropriate purchase price for a chief-wife, a concubine or a slave-wife respectively; such marriage is affiliated with bonds of dominion that inaugurate the woman to a husband’s household, kin and tribe; divorce is a husband’s prerogative only; and generally baal marriage regards offspring as belonging to the husband’s family line. While a woman relinquishes her asset rights to her natal family land on her exogamous marriage as she leaves her natal family, he has no direct asset rights to her husband’s land; she may enjoy it through her offspring – counted as her husband’s heirs, they are her eventual providers in her widowhood.
