Those who know the blacks and their love of a 'dolce far niente,' will understand what a veritable hell this perpetual movement would make.
The three deadly sins were unprovoked murder, lying to the elders of the tribe, or stealing a woman within the forbidden degrees--that is, of the same hereditary totem, i.e.of the same blood, or of the prohibited family name clan.
But by a curious train of reasoning two wrongs make a right.

Should by any chance a man succeed in getting a wife he had no right to, having lived with her, he could keep her, if he came unhurt from the trial he had to stand; he only having a shield to defend himself with, the men of the stolen woman's kin threw weapons at him.

Only the men of her kin are assailants, not as in a murder trial, when the men of all kins can throw at the guilty man.

Should he defend himself successfully, he can keep the woman on the understanding that a woman of his family is given to a man of hers, to square things.

A man who stands his trial is called a Booreenbayyi.
Kindliness towards the old and sick is strictly inculcated as a command of Byamee, to whom all breaches of his laws are reported by the all-seeing spirit at a man's death, and he is judged accordingly.