| Additionally, the government does not recognize forced marriage or dowries paid to the mother's family to legitimize the marriage. |
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| Rising dowries also impinged on patrician men, forcing almost half of them to remain unmarried during the fifteenth century. |
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| Widows seeking the restitution of their dowries after their husbands died, for example, frequently litigated in the secular courts. |
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| Brides are expected to bring substantial dowries with them and to defer to their husbands in most matters. |
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| Michael is preparing to marry Delia, and the family is consumed with talk of dowries and other calculable advantages. |
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| Sikhs, on the other hand, do not give or take dowries, and they solemnize their marriages before the Granth, their sacred book. |
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| Constance was busy preparing for her wedding, checking through the guest list, going over her dowries, and rehearsing four times in one week. |
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| It's a useful illustration of the conflicting views surrounding both dowries and forced marriages. |
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| He is reported to have been wealthy and to have kept a train of boy attendants and also to have provided dowries for many girls of Acragas. |
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| Male monasteries did not require dowries of their professed members and represented less of a threat to the family patrimony. |
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| Arranged marriages in which parents negotiated spouses, dowries, and inheritance for their children were once common but have declined. |
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| In cultures where dowries exist, girls are considered a burden on the family. |
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| The 8th shows gain from dowries, unexpected inheritances and legacies. |
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| Daughters are seen as an expense particularly because of the dowries families pay to marry them off. |
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| It was not only dowries, alimentos, and other financial sums required by the convent that allowed professed daughters to remain connected to their families' property. |
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| In Renaissance Venice wives were free to bequeath their dowries to whom they willed, whereas in Florence they were required by law to leave them to their children or husband. |
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| Furthermore, marriage contracts show that mothers contributed regularly to their daughters' dowries with amounts that were even superior to what they left to cadets by will. |
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| Even freed slaves carry the taint of their hereditary status, and their former masters or parents' masters may claim some or all of their income, property and dowries. |
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| Early transfers of property, large dowries, and a system of partible inheritance favored the entry of sons and sons-in-law into commercial ventures at an early age. |
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| Above all, perhaps, the chapters on notions of the appropriate age for marriage and on dowries are extremely impressive pieces of research and analysis. |
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| Despite the physical and spiritual barriers of the cloister, nuns used their dowries and other property interests to exercise fiscal influence and autonomy. |
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| Cattle have been a status symbol, a store of value in a land without banks, the only way to pay dowries. |
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| Even their children are shunned. Despite the shortage of brides, Urmila says that dowries have risen, not fallen. |
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| The cost of labor, eager for these expatriates' Euros, has increased together with prices of goods and even marriage dowries of young girls. |
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| Both ladies were given conspicuous dowries, the descriptions of which survive in the family archives. |
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| E ' therefore fundamental that the reproducers overcome this test with the purpose to verify its dowries caratteriali. |
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| Venice, on the other hand, was feeling increasingly threatened by a resurgent Rome and financially drained by money going to church-building and convent dowries. |
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| Research on dowries in the Bolognese nobility shows that, although fathers' obligation to give a dowry to daughters had been abolished in 1865, the practice persisted. |
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| The Filles du roi brought dowries to the colony. |
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| The Cal 2 or Certified Of Attitude Á. the Job N° 2 are a fundamental test to verify the natural dowries of the dog without is made a true and propia competitive preparation as in demand for other tests of lavoro. |
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| The family was devastated as they lost not only their house, but all their belongings, including the dowries painstakingly saved for the five sisters. |
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| In some Indian states women have been assassinated because their dowries were insufficient, but the police failed to pursue any further investigations. |
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| During the Middle Ages, pepper was sometimes used to pay rents, dowries and taxes, and was so expensive that the English took to using herb substitutes to flavor their food. |
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| The material security of these communities depended on endowments and dowries, thereby closing them to poor women unless they could find a sponsor. |
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| Girls join their husbands' families, and need dowries. |
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| The 'marriages' between musical genres each work in their own sweet way and we leave it up to listeners to weigh up the respective dowries each party brings to the partnership. |
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| Women enter the industry not just because of poverty, but also for the prospect of improving their family's standard of living, sending their children to school, saving for their dowries or supporting ageing parents. |
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| It is not only widow cleansing that promotes the spread of HIV, but other customs such as polygamy, exchanging a wife for land or cattle and giving of dowries. |
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| Deprived of his fortune, he was unable to provide proper dowries for his sisters, with the result that three of them threw themselves away on a wife beater, jailed debtor and drunkard, respectively. |
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| The placement of girls in domestic service is often linked to perceptions that domestic service is a good preparation for marriage, and that girls' families might raise their dowries by putting them to work. |
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| In Portugual, the confraternity began this practice as early as the sixteenth century and in 1646 specific regulations for the distribution of the dowries were established. |
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