dowry

Before 1926, the main way for a daughter to get property from her father was her dowry or parent's bestowal .

After a few months, the groom and his relatives come for the bride and take her to his home along with the dowry.

Some men agreed but most did not; they demanded sweeteners in the form of extra dowry payments from the authorities.

I confess that as a young girl I loved a man who would not marry me for want of a dowry.

He gave the harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and dowry flake.

Among the dowry items, besides silk stuff, there must be a pair of young mulberry trees, silkworm and egg sheets.

eg. With his wife's dowry , the young attorney was able to open a law office.

With his wife's dowry, the young attorney was able to open a law office.

She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.

He answered that he would give her twenty thousand crowns for her dowry and half his estate at his death.

I confess. . . as a girl I loved a man who would not marry me for want of a dowry.

He also provided a cash dowry, which his mother-in-law used to make rugs and blankets for the couple.

As part of her dowry, a woman would make several pairs of shoes as proof of her needlework ability, as well as her small feet.

he wanted to be practical , and he was going to marry a girl with a huge dowry and end off as a prefer , like his father before him.

Water from her parents brought a lot of dowry, living things, and her past lives, the sea must be inclusive.

Yes, a handsome dowry is something the Fus surely expected: a nice sum of silver, a few rolls of silk, and perhaps a cow or two.

Tujia girl like their elders learned at a young age, when married to a full set of tapestry as a dowry.

The next day morning, the daughters waked up and found the gold that was enough to buy their dowry.

But this time, the local Youth Troupe with a new mill for the dowry, wanted to send his daughter betrothed to exorcise.

As part of her dowry, the bride would bring her personal belongings or trousseau to the home of her new husband.

Among them is an Italian singer, whose aria is cut short by the baron's wrangling with a lawyer over Sophie's dowry.

Girls are prejudiced against largely because of the dowry system and inheritance practices tilted in favour of men.

The dowry was the wife's right to receive a tenth of all her husband's property.

Together with the bride to the house of the husband, the dowry became the woman's "private property" in her new home.

Never would she measure his love by the dowry he gave her.

The dowry will BE enough for her old age had she not spent it irrationally.

The obligation to return the dowry and to pay the jointure (ketubah) served as a good security against divorce on insufficient grounds.

Was it a dowry of mother's?

The heart is like month: saving GangBengEr stem ah? For a dowry?

My Uncle's family are busy preparing for her dowry.

Sanjay said that when his first daughter got married, he did not have to pay a dowry because she is well-educated.

They prayed for a mere girl, thinking a large dowry would buy the daughter a husband from a poor family who would take their clan name.

Suspicion, discontent, and strife, come in for dowry with a wife---Robert Herrick, poet.

I would be eyeing the dowry if I were you.

I will consent to my daughter's giving her hand to you only on receipt of the agreed dowry.

Because sister would like to have a different wedding, she insist the dowry should be books rather than other substances.

Many girls insist on buying, either overdrafting their dowry early or relying on a boyfriend that provides food and shelter.

A married woman's personal property exclusive of her dowry , according to common law .

He shall take you with your dowry , and hook on Mademoiselle Bourienne into the bargain.

Dowry is not only means itself , more important was Athenian women acquiring a certain economic status's manifestation.

No dowry was exchanged, the witness said, and the boy will still be able to marry a human bride in the future without filing for divorce.

But now my daughter's grown and working. I only need to save up for the dowry, which is manageable.

This prisoner named Kakule says he is guilty only of marrying young and not being able to pay a dowry.

Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.

given high real estate prices , it is perhaps not a surprise that grooms are getting more say in the dowry items selection.

It only became Scottish, as a wedding dowry, in 1468; we still consider ourselves Orcadians first then Scots.

Bin Laden's then-bodyguard claimed to have delivered the dowry.

Experts say there is a clear link between the practice of dowry and the sharply declining girl-to-boy ratio of babies in India.

In India, the wedding season in mid-August is expected to drive up sales of gold, a fixture in dowry and gifts.

The mini-statement after that impressed him thoroughly and I won a big dowry in appreciation.

Tess is a doctoral candidate and has had her whole life thwarted by Ben's passion for finding the Dowry .

The dowry virus has infected every woman in Bangladesh. How to get cured of it?

The horror of dowry burnings and honor killings continues, often in countries that are signatories.

daughters go off to look after somebody else's old age, and, in India, require a dowry.

Send ZeJi day, set by the family, NvGu prepared to send dowry.

red dowry; seat; bedding; inherit; integration.

A woman's marriage portion; a dowry.

A lot of the women who come are beaten by their husbands, or tormented by their in-laws because their dowry was too low.

I only need to save up for the dowry, which is manageable.

In old days, when girls from rich families were married to their husbands, they expected to bring with themselves a large quantity of dowry.

The parents need to prepare for the dowry, the parents need to prepare for the dowry.

Not spend the dowry of a lawful bed.

Will the Bangladeshi women never be free from dowry?

A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.

The bridegroom must formally ask for the bride's hand in the barn, because this is there the dowry is stored.

In fact, the curse of dowry continues even after marriage.

The dowry of my wife was very little in that age.

It is believed that three poor sisters could not marry because they had no money for a dowry.

Think of our own students, and one school to school, the program is still owing on the loan, nor married, unmarried have their dowry !

In that area, women's dowry is more than a symbol of wealth, it is also a symbol of power.

The groom must formally ask for the bride's hand in the barn, because the dowry (4) is stored there.

She refused to have a dowry when she got married.

NvGu dowry to burn incense, fathers, gods, cannon fire you the giver's family festivities.

Gold's centuries-old popularity in China for jewellery, payments and dowry gifts ended when the Communist party came to power in 1949.

His family hoped that his bride would bring a large dowry.

For most of NvGu accept dowry, 12 pieces back.

She had no dowry, no expectations, no means of being known, understood, loved, married by a man rich and distinguished;

but he said we would have to ask for dowry

A boy, on the other hand, will one day bring home a bride and dowry.

The whole of Shanzhao the river like a silver-silver earrings, silver bracelets and silver collar with a silver string of dowry;

Folding dimensions for sales units of textiles; household and dowry linen

Part of the dowry (cheque, gold bars and gold rice bowl set)

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we need us a devil ' s dowry . - we ' ll give them her

The Dowry in the Qing Dynasty

give a TV set as a dowry

But now the nuptial bed is made, the dowry has been paid;

Research on Evolution of Ancient Dowry in China