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The bride-price had to be returned even if the father reneged on the marriage contract because of slander of the suitor on the part of the suitor's friend, and the Code stipulated that the slanderer should not marry the girl ( and thus would not profit from his slander ).
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bride-price and had
It remained the wife's for life, descending to her children, if any ; otherwise returning to her family, when the husband could deduct the bride-price if it had not been given to her, or return it if it had.
If she had no children, he returned her dowry to her and paid her a sum equivalent to the bride-price, or a mina of silver if there had been none.
She had been persuaded by Polynices, who offered her the necklace of Harmonia, daughter of Aphrodite, once part of the bride-price of Cadmus, as a bribe for her advocacy.
bride-price and be
: If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride-price, and she shall be his wife.
You shall dwell with us ; and the land shall be open to you ," and Shechem offered Jacob and his sons any bride-price they named.
In some cases, however, the young man would be from a poor family and could not afford to pay the likely bride-price.
The ketubah became a mechanism whereby the amount due to the wife ( the bride-price ) came to be paid in the event of the cessation of marriage, either by the death of the husband or divorce.
bride-price and returned
This bride-price was usually then handed over by her father to the bride upon her marriage, and so returned into the bridegroom's possession, along with her dowry, which was her portion of the family's inheritance as a daughter.
bride-price and if
At the time when the Homeric epics were composed, " primitive " practices such as bride-price and polygamy were no longer part of Greek society ; mentions of them preserve, if they have a historical basis at all, customs dating from the Age of Migrations ( ca.
It is possible that the Homeric " bride-price " is part of a reciprocal exchange of gifts between the prospective husband and the bride's father, but while gift exchange is a fundamental practice of aristocratic friendship and hospitality, it occurs rarely, if at all, in connection with marriage arrangements.
A husband was legally permitted to hit his wife to " correct " her, but if the blow left a mark she was entitled to the equivalent of her bride-price in compensation and could, if she wished, divorce him.
He refused to pay a bride-price for Findabair, but agreed to accept her if he helped Medb beat the Ulstermen in the Táin Bó Cuailnge ( Cattle Raid of Cooley ).
bride-price and father
The marriage of young people was usually arranged between their relatives — the groom's father providing the bride-price, which, with other gifts, the suitor ceremonially presented to the bride's father.
All legitimate children shared equally in the father's estate on his death, reservation being made of a bride-price for an unmarried son, dower for a daughter, or property deeded to favourite children by the father.
If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must still pay the bride-price for virgins.
In the Odyssey, the least arguable references to bride-price are in the marriage settlements for Ctimene, the sister of Odysseus ; Pero, the daughter of Neleus, who demanded cattle for her ; and the goddess Aphrodite herself, whose husband Hephaestus threatens to make her father Zeus return the bride-price given for her, because she was adulterous.
" The dowry, previously regarded as a bride-price paid to the father, became a nuptial gift retained by the wife as part of her personal property.
bride-price and on
She recommends to the Storm-god that he pay the Sea-god the bride-price for the Sea-god's daughter on her wedding to Telipinu.
bride-price and marriage
Some of the marriage settlements mentioned in the Iliad and Odyssey suggest that bride-price was a custom of Homeric society.
The language used for various marriage transactions, however, may blur distinctions between bride-price and dowry, and a third practice called " indirect dowry ," whereby the groom hands over property to the bride which is then used to establish the new household.
In fact, like the rest of the country, their most prized possessions are cattle, which patriarchs demand as lobola, bride-price ( dowry ), in return for the hand of their daughters in marriage.
bride-price and part
A kalim ( bride-price ) was paid for the bride, part of which went to her relatives and part to buy the dowry.
bride-price and marry
* Pre-marital sex: A man who has sex with an unbetrothed virgin must pay bride-price and marry the girl ( Exodus 22: 16 – 17 )
bride-price and from
A mahr differs from the standard meaning of bride-price in that it is not to the family of the bride, but to the wife to keep for herself.
bride-price and ).
In the Iliad, Agamemnon promises Achilles that he can take a bride without paying the bride-price ( Greek hednon ), instead receiving a dowry ( pherne ).
had and be
It could be some kind of trick Budd had thought up.
It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.
And, for the sake of Julia and Susan, it had to be tried.
He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.
Its front was windowless, but irregularities in the masonry might be an indication that windows, now blinded, had once looked out upon the street.
He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.
She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.
She had the feeling that, under the mouldering leaves, there would be the bodies of dead animals, quietly decaying and giving their soil back to the mountain.
He knew that anything a brainy little lady like her had to say would be plumb important, as well as pleasin' to the ear, and he didn't want to miss a word of it.
A wildcatter had to be prepared for almost any emergency.
He, McBride, would be cited as in the wrong, and he, Lord, would go scot-free, an officer who had only done his duty, though perhaps too energetically.
Rumors of the offer Tom Horn had made at the Stockgrowers' Association meeting had leaked out by then, and as a grand jury investigation of the murder got underway, the prosecuting attorney, a Colonel Baird, ordered that the tall stock detective be summoned for questioning.
For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.
Curt's visit to the livery stable had been merely a precaution in case anyone should be watching.
Her impact in the zing commercials had led to her being considered for an excellent part in an upcoming TV series, Underwater Western Eye, a documentary-type show to be sponsored by Oatnut Grits.
I had seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;
I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.
`` But knowing you, I know that you're glad to be alive, and grateful -- and sorry because I killed the snake, even though I had to.
In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.
That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.
Unfortunately, it was Muzak, which automatically is piped into the public rooms, and which nolens volens had to be endured.
Others mentioned that I might have had to ask friends or even strangers for help and that to be stranded in a foreign country without sufficient funds did not contribute to international understanding.
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