European men took enslaved or free women of color as mistresses after making arrangements to give them a dowry, house or other transfer of property, and sometimes, if they were enslaved, offering freedom and education for their children.

When the time came for him to provide a dowry for his daughter, he saw no alternative than to sell his library.

* 1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark.

It is still reflected in the German term for the English word dowry = Mitgift, das Mitgegebene, " that which is given " ( with the wedding ).

Islamist movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood, " are well known for providing shelters, educational assistance, free or low cost medical clinics, housing assistance to students from out of town, student advisory groups, facilitation of inexpensive mass marriage ceremonies to avoid prohibitively costly dowry demands, legal assistance, sports facilities, and women's groups.

Jacob, who had deceived and cheated his brother, is in turn deceived and cheated by his relative Laban concerning Jacob's seven years of service ( lacking money for a dowry ) for the hand of Rachel, receiving Leah instead.

Giovanni was offered her dowry in return for his cooperation.

Stuart Hill claims that independence comes from an arrangement struck in 1468 between King Christian I of Denmark / Norway and Scotland's James III, whereby Christian pawned the Shetland Islands to James in order to raise money for his daughter's dowry.

As a young girl, she was sent to the convent of Herford, where her grandmother Matilda was abbess and where her reputation for beauty and virtue ( probably also her Westphalian dowry ) is said to have attracted the attention of Duke Otto I of Saxony, who betrothed her to his recently divorced son and heir, Henry the Fowler.

Philip pushed the case further when King Béla III of Hungary asked for the widow's hand in marriage, and thus her dowry had to be returned, to which Henry finally agreed.

The latter demanded Nur al-Din return the lands given to him as a dowry for marrying his daughter when he received reports that she was being abused and used by him to gain Seljuk territory.

Xeer is defined by a few fundamental tenets that are immutable and which closely approximate the principle of jus cogens in international law: These precepts include: a ) payment of blood money ( locally referred to as diya ) for libel, theft, physical harm, rape and death, as well as supplying assistance to relatives ; b ) assuring good inter-clan relations by treating women justly, negotiating with " peace emissaries " in good faith, and sparing the lives of socially protected groups " Birr Magaydo ," ( e. g. children, women, the pious, poets, messengers, sheikhs, and guests ); c ) family obligations such as the payment of dowry, and sanctions for eloping ; d ) rules pertaining to the management of resources such as the use of pasture land, water, and other natural resources ; e ) providing financial support to married female relatives and newlyweds ; f ) donating livestock and other assets to the poor.

Nevertheless, he paid a dowry of twelve thousand pounds for her impending marriage to Don Francisco de Moncada, son of the Prince of Paterno, Viceroy of Sicily, whom she married in 1571.

A dowry known as mahr is given to the bride, a legal contract is signed when entering the marriage, and the husband must pay for the wife's expenses.

In this scenario, the qadi judge will effect the divorce for the wife, and she may be required to return part, or all, of her dowry.

It came to France in 1180 as a dowry of a Flemish princess, Isabelle of Hainaut, and was again made a separate county in 1237 for Robert,

William the Aetheling having perished in the wreck of the White Ship ( 25 November 1120 ), Fulk, on his return from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land ( 1120 – 1121 ), married his second daughter Sibyl, at the instigation of Louis VI, to William Clito, son of Robert Curthose, and a claimant to the duchy of Normandy, giving her Maine for a dowry ( 1122 or 1123 ).

On 16 August 1290, the latter married his daughter Margaret to Charles of Valois, son of Philip III the Bold, giving her Anjou and Maine for dowry, in exchange for the kingdoms of Aragon and Valentia and the countship of Barcelona given up by Charles.

" Kelly and her family had to provide Prince Rainier with a dowry of 2 million USD in order for the marriage to go ahead.

On 23 June 1661, a marriage treaty was signed, Catherine's dowry securing to England Tangier ( in North Africa ) and the Seven islands of Bombay ( the latter having a major influence on the development of the British Empire in India ), together with trading privileges in Brazil and the East Indies, religious and commercial freedom in Portugal and two million Portuguese crowns ( about £ 300, 000 ); while Portugal obtained military and naval support against Spain and liberty of worship for Catherine.

However, the unexpected death of Otto III in 1002 and the reorientation of the Holy Roman Empire politics by his successor Henry II, the wedding is delayed until 1012, when Bolesław I demanded the wedding and sent his son to Germany with gifts to his bride's family, who at that time quarreled with Henry II for Mathilde's dowry.

Men and women would classify themselves into three classes, and would generally state how much money they earned, or would be given as a dowry.

If she obtains the divorce, she must pay reparations not to exceed the value of the dowry, and may not remarry until three menstrual periods have elapsed, or, if pregnant, until her baby's birth.

Mírzá ` Abbás Núrí ( father of Bahá ' u ' lláh ) accepted perhaps enticed by the huge dowry which included three servants, large piece of land, property and a huge sum of money.

Following that ( months later ) comes the wedding day ( Budu in Bari ) preceded by two to three days of negotiation for the amount of dowry the bridegroom is obligated to offer.

If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

Charles Maitland married, on 18 November 1652, Elizabeth, younger daughter of Richard Lauder of Haltoun, ( nr. Ratho ), Sheriff Principal for Edinburgh, & c., the owner of Haltoun House and its lands, as well as extensive properties at Lauder, all of which passed to the Maitlands upon and after his marriage, Lauder's elder daughter having been provided with a money dowry.

A second marriage was arranged for Lionel with Violante ( c. 1353-November 1386 ), daughter of Galeazzo Visconti, lord of Pavia ( d. 1378 ); the enormous dowry which Galeazzo promised with his daughter being exaggerated by the rumour of the time.

Her dowry was a large part of her father's Gloucestershire and Welsh estate and Robert of Caen became the first Earl of Gloucester, c. 1122.

As he went out he told Freddie the dinner was perfect, and when he got his hat and coat from Nancy Parks and put a fifty-cent piece in the slot, he told her to be sure that it went toward her dowry.

`` O Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our most gentle queen and mother, look down in mercy upon England, thy `` dowry '', and upon us all who greatly hope and trust in thee.

Later, after marrying Mary Ann Hamilton, he purchased part of the newspaper with the dowry.

At this point, Henry VII faced the challenge of avoiding the obligation to return her dowry to her father.

Ostensibly, the marriage was delayed until Henry was old enough, but Henry VII procrastinated so much about Catherine's unpaid dowry that it was doubtful if the marriage would ever take place.

In 1684, Defoe married Mary Tuffley, the daughter of a London merchant, receiving a dowry of £ 3, 700-a huge amount by the standards of the day.

The match was considered inappropriate due to Champion's low social status, poor education, fatherless status and lack of a dowry.

The decade also saw the framing of FGM — along with other issues in the domestic sphere, such as dowry deaths — as a human rights violation, rather than as a health concern, and this encouraged academic interest, including from feminist legal scholars.

In 1440 he was elected German king as Frederick IV and in 1452 crowned Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III by Pope Nicholas V. In 1452, at the age of 37, he married the 18-year-old Infanta Eleanor, daughter of King Edward of Portugal, whose dowry helped him to alleviate his debts and cement his power.

Albert illegally took control of some imperial fiefs and then asked to marry Kunigunde ( who lived in Innsbruck, far from her father ), offering to give her the fiefs as a dowry.

He claimed half the Western Roman Empire as dowry.

Attila retreated without Honoria or her dowry.

In 1468 the last significant acquisition of Scottish territory occurred when James III married Margaret of Denmark, receiving the Orkney Islands and the Shetland Islands in payment of her dowry.

Although she brought him a dowry of only $ 300, she possessed a frugal mind and a business judgment that he declared better than that of most merchants, and she assisted him in the practical details of his business.

He was stripped of his inheritance, his wife's dowry and his priesthood, but he refused to divorce Cornelia and was forced to go into hiding.

After a woman got widowed, her dowry should be returned and a husband could not take on a major debt without his wife giving her consent twice.

Marriage is also conditioned a payment of dowry by the husband to the wife of approximately 2. 2 troy ounces of gold or silver dependent on the permanent residence of the husband.