Indeed, the value of her marriage dowrywas always vested in her.
When, therefore, she divorced her husband, or was divorced by him, she was entitled to have her dowry refunded and to return to her father's house.
If she had received no dowryfrom her father when she took vows of celibacy, she could claim after his death one-third of the portion of a son.
In the Calicut taluk, we find an exception to this general rule of South Malabar, where the subject of the dowry is not usually mentioned.
Cardot owed a great deal to your father, who gave him his sister, Mademoiselle Husson, with an enormous dowry for those days, which enabled him to make a large fortune in the silk trade.
Descend for a moment, my lord, and examine the dowry of the princess.
He found no consolation for the dowry promised with his elder girl, for his vinelands going into the hands of these Parisians.
Now, as the father was bestowing on his other daughter the dowry coveted by Andermatt, Gontran had either to renounce this union or turn round to the elder sister.
That dowry was of two kinds and was always paid by the bridegroom.
It was unnecessary to give cause for the divorce, for it was sufficient to give up the dowry which he himself had given when he was married.
If you save all your pennies till you have occasion for a dowry you'll have enough to buy a real pig," counselled Cornie wisely.
Then she went skipping off to her room with the dowry pig in one hand and a green candle from the cake in the other, to report the affair to Ethelinda.
You think you will get a heavydowry with her,' he said, coldly; 'it is for that you have come.
A letters-patent was obtained through proof of adultery, and the wife was imprisoned in some convent for the rest of her life, being deprived of her dowry which fell to her husband.
Giving her his name was the only moral obligation; the marriage over and the dowryportion settled, he pursued his way, considering that he owed her no further duty.
The girl's name had been changed officially and by the clergy, and a dowry had been given her.
At the death of her husband, in 1660, to avoid trouble with his family, she renounced the marriage dowry of twenty-four thousand livres.
Nevertheless they opposed the notice, and obtained for Francesca Pompilia the continuance in quasi-possession of her daughtership and a decree for the transfer of the dowry bonds.
Pietro, moreover, had long ago broken off the lawsuit brought as regards the pretended birth and the revocation of the dowry contract, and so this complicity cannot be made to seem the sole provoking cause, which would exclude causa litis.
He decided to take a wife with dowry enough to be of advantage to his own house.
For the ground on which Pietro had attempted to free himself from the obligation to furnish the promised dowry was this solely: that Francesca was not his own daughter, but the child of an unknown father and of a harlot.
The nullity of the dowry contract would none the less be decided, because it had made declaration that the said Francesca Pompilia was their daughter.
And therefore they thought well then to pass the matter by that they might avoid exposing themselves to the danger both of losing the dowry and of being unable to nullify the marriage.
Therefore, when the dowry had been set at twenty-six bonds, with added hope of future succession to the rest of his property by virtue of the reversionary interest to which the wife was entitled, the bargain was accepted.
But the truth of the charge of ill-treatment toward the parents, whom he was obliged by the dowry contract to provide with food, is also to be drawn from the deposition of a servant, as given in the Summary, No.
He assigned to his daughter asdowry twenty-six bonds, with future succession to the remainder.
But even just ground of fear, because of which the luckless girl was moved to flee, has come to light, namely, the lawsuit brought by her father against the Accused for the nullification of the dowry contract.
By the third article, the King of France engaged to pay up all the arrears of the dowry of Mary, the Queen-Dowager of France.
A dowry had grown valueless, since it would but hasten the nuptials from which she recoiled.
And the old Leslie domains to be sold in two years--a portion of the dowry might purchase them!
I can give to her no dowry; can her husband owe to my friend that advance in an honourable career, that opening to energy and talent, which is more than a dowry to generous ambition?
She continually urged upon Lady Jane the necessity of marrying Nora to some one of rank less disproportioned to her own, and empowered that lady to assure any such wooer of a dowry far beyond Nora's station.
The dowry which by law he still owes me it would distress him to pay till this marriage be assured.
Moreover, the better she might marry the greater her dowry would naturally be,--the dowry, to go out of the family!
A dowry is the money and jew'ls and things a girl gets from her father to keep for her very own when she marries.
Could she, a plain country girl, with no dowry to speak of, hope to wed a man with a fortune of sixty-eight dollars and fifty cents?
I should at once purchase cows, with the dowry of my fifty wives, and establish a cheese factory, making the fragrant Limberger for the Germans in America, and the smooth Neuchatel for more delicate appetites, and all the other varieties.
But the thought of that dowry was too much for him.
That pretty blonde yonder, with the diamond buckles in her shoes, is Mademoiselle de Rancy, with a dowry of some millions of francs; what say you to pushing your fortune there?
It lay in the thought that I, the humble captain of hussars, should ever be thought of as the suitor of the greatest beauty and the richest dowry of the day: here was the mainspring of my flattered pride.
Correlative to this was the liability of the husband to pay to the fisc the dowry of a wife condemned or reconciled for heresy.
The dowry was forfeited by the wife's heresy but not by that of the husband and, in the latter case, it descended to her children.
The judge of confiscations at Cuenca had condemned him in a hundred and fifty ducats for the dowry of his wife and the receiver had cast him in prison to enforce payment.
There's not a small farmer comes into the shop but his daughter has more of a dowry than forty pounds.
And should my son purchase a substitute for poor Joseph, it would take all his money, and he would have nodowry to give Julie.
And her dowry was to have been a hundred and twenty dollars.
Estorade and to receive a dowry of two hundred and fifty thousand livres, but only on the express condition of being allowed to work my will upon the grange and make a park there.
There is not in all France," he said with bitterness, "a man who would take for wife a daughter of one of our noblest families without a dowry and bestow one on her.
What I got from my husband was my own dowryand its income is very small.
The little dowry which the duke had given her had disappeared in the purchase of furniture and her husband's outfit.
Duc de Chartres was still but a young man, this dowry was not large, but he promised to take charge of the advancement of his protégée.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dowry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
