So likewise, when she suffers grave insult from the husband's parents, she may return to her own family, reclaim her dotal gift, and demand a contribution for her support.
Thus the woman must restore the dotal gift or the presents received from her husband; and the purchase price must be repaid by herself or by her kindred.
Sometimes all the children go to the father or to the house-community, the mother receiving back the dotal gift: ibid.
One step more, and we reach the stage of development in which the father provides his daughters with a dotal portion out of his own substance.
Often, as already seen, the woman receives back her dotal gift and whatever she brought with her at the marriage; while frequently the husband is obliged to surrender a portion or all of the common property.
The dotal system and separation of conjugal property are not only recognised in all the statutes,[389] but are often enacted in an exaggerated form, as seems to be the case in the statutes of Pisa.
This date, which is given in the printed Florentine statute of 1415, shows that the dotal system and the separation of property had by this time made great progress, a fact farther confirmed by the statutes.
Dotal property, of which no valuation had been made, might be claimed by her as against any creditor, and if her husband fell into difficulties, she could always demand restitution of her dower.
Of her extra-dotal property he was entitled to one-third, and the wife could not dispose of her dowry either by will or donation, so as to exclude her husband or children.
Dotal property is that which the wife brings to the husband to assist him in bearing the expenses of the marriage establishment.
The separate property of the wife is divided into dotal and extradotal.
The wife may, with the authorization of her husband, or, on his refusal, with the authorization of the Judge, give her dotal effects for the establishment of the children she may have had by a former marriage.
When the dotal system had been explained to Schwab, he seemed much inclined that way for his friend.
No one would imagine how anxious he was to marry under the dotal system.
It seems that a friend of the countess is enthusiastic about the Revue speculative and is going to espouse it under a dotal system, making it an allowance of fifty thousand francs, which it lacks.
I said a word or two about it to Marie, and gave her to understand that even under the dotal system this sort of comradeship was very unwise.
She tried to calm me, but I interrupted her and continued-- "In compliance with your wishes we married under the dotal system.
Emile Augier's prophesies in the Fourchambault, with reference to the dotal system have indeed been fulfilled.
In these (called also the countries of the dotal regime) there was no community between the spouses of their acquisitions.
It is very singular that all the nations of Continental Europe, with the exception of Spain, have rejected the dotal or Roman law.
Her landed estate, whetherdotal or not, is not affected by his debts.
The Dotal founded on Roman Law; the Communal founded on German.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dotal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: endowed; invested; stipendiary; subsidiary
