dowry

n. from the days when a groom expected to profit from a marriage, the money and personal property which a bride brings to her new husband which becomes his alone. Dowry still exists in the Civil Code of Louisiana.

DOWRY. Formerly applied to mean that which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; this is now called a portion. This word is sometimes confounded with dower. Vide Co. Litt. 31; Civ. Code of Lo. art. 2317; Dig. 23, 3, 76; Code, 5, 12, 20.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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Marriage custom (dowery system) was regarded as 'bad tradition' (48.3%).

Social Policy and Changing Status of Women in Pakistan (1947-1978)

KERNEL DOWERY: Too keen last time and worth retaining in hope a stronger pace will be on next time.

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But you dispensed my dowery's pence to those two vultures' claws?

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(1.) Jeff Underwood, "Some Fear Alabama Paid Too Dear a Dowery to Woo Plant," The Birmingham News, 30 September 1993: 1.

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Oil analysts, concerned that BP's holdings are growing like a king's dowery, are quick to note that BP Amoco's expansion with the $57.6 billion merger last December with British Petroleum Co.

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The count now occupied San Sepolcro and announced that he was holding it as security against recovery of his daughter's dowery. To recover San Sepolcro, Pope Eugenius sent Giovanni Vitelleschi, the condottiere-bishop who had shown such prowess in recovering other parts of the papal states, and whom he rewarded with the titles of Patriarch of Alexandria and Archbishop of Florence.

Pope Eugenius IV and Jewish money-lending in Florence: the case of Salomone di Bonaventura during the Chancellorship of Leonardo Bruni

As mentioned earlier, the socioeconomic characteristics of the Chalt-Chaprote community are no different from what prevails in the other regions of this country, and in fact the South-Asia subcontinent (e.g., women have limited access to formal education and health facilities, low priority work, no decision-making power, denial of rights in inheritance, dowery, etc.).

The cultural conception and structural perpetuation of female subordination: an examination of gender relations among the populations of the Chalt-Chaprote community in the Nager Valley of Northern Pakistan

Similarly, Rs 10,98,000 have been allocated for MORA (Ministry of Religious Affairs) education scholarships, Rs 10,98,000 for students of religious seminaries, Rs 878,000 for treatment expenses, Rs 1,317,000 for dowery and Rs 244,500 for local Zakat Chairmen.

DZC releases Rs 10m fund for poor, deserving people

EARLSWOOD LAKES, Solihull, Sat, Yachter: Ian Barrow (Warwick) 47-3-0, 15 bream to 4lb, feeder with caster and red maggot, peg 50; Mark Bissett (Birmingham) 38-4-0; Mark Dowery (Birmingham) 29-9-0.

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