ตัวอย่าง dowry

• The suggestion put forward is that a dowry system was perhaps an essential part of such alliances.

• Yet, with dowry demands continuously increasing, it is doubtful whether a marriage to a more prosperous house was always possible.

• Three, even moveable dowry is seldom considered entirely the woman's own, and is rarely in her exclusive control.

• The elderly villagers explain the onset of excessive dowry demands as caused by people becoming wealthier and wanting to secure better houses for their daughters.

• Many of the details of dowry transactions are very similar, including the insistence on the wife's continued ownership, whatever the management arrangements may be.

• Here, it was not so much a case of balancing dowries as of further strengthening ties between families.

• A detailed examination of dowries provides clues as to the property owned by newlyweds and how co-operation between the generations operated in practice.

• Although formally the dowry remained in the complete control of wives, husbands apparently relied on these dowries as available credit.

• But what did happen to their dowry and levirate after the early fourteenth century?

• Paying a dowry for marriage does not lead to a complete commodification of women, but it differs significantly from giving mere ritual gifts.

• The analogy between domain and dowry and the image of the king as husband is familiar territory.

• Even if divorced by her husband for good reason, she never lost her legal right to a dowry.

• Above all, the entire patriarchal structure had an interest in safeguarding women's dowries and ensuring that the system was working smoothly.

• However, these functional arguments do not explain why parents choose to give their daughters a dowry and not an inheritance.

• Marriage, dowry and inheritance are rightly seen as linked because major transfers of property to both men and women occur at marriage and at death.