1 Sentences With "bridegift"

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"Thy truth, then, be thy dower". King Lear The general establishment of the principle of dower in the customary law of Western Europe, according to Maine,Maine, Ancient Law, 3rd American edition, New York City, 1887, 218 is to be traced to the influence of the Church (no evidence of this whatsoever dower payments evolved from Germanic custom of paying a brideprice, which over centuries morphed into the bridegift, was in place long before the church became seriously involved in marriage practice), and to be included perhaps among its most arduous triumphs. Dower is an outcome of the ecclesiastical practice of exacting from the husband at marriage a promise to endow his wife, a promise retained in form even now in the marriage ritual of the Established Church in England.See Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, II, 134, note p.