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Marriage System of the Bodos ABSTRACT Marriage, a legally and socially sanction union, between man and women, that is regulated by laws, rules, customs beliefs and attitudes that prescribe the rights and duties of the partners and accords status to their offspring. Marriage creates new social relationships and reciprocal rights between the spouses, between each and the kin of the other and establishes what will be the rights and status of the children when they are born. The universality of marriage within different societies and cultures is attributed to the many basic social and personal functions for which it provides structure, such as sexual gratification and regulation and consumption and satisfaction of personal needs for affection, status and companionship. Perhaps its strongest function concerns procreation, the care of children and their education socialization and regulation of lines of descent. Key words: Marriage, Bodo, haba, society, custom, tradition, religion, sexual, man, women.