dowry

Each successful hit contributes to a virtual “anti dowry fund.”

Once the dowry has been cashed, there is no financial reason to keep the wife around.

The woman is a commodity to make money—the dowry becomes a business transaction.

The full document is quoted in a new book by Avi Raz, The Bride and the Dowry, complete with the typing errors I then made.

The groom has to give the bride a dowry to make the contract valid, and that dowry is for her and her alone to use as she wishes.

He tried to marry his daughter without a dowry to some man who was intoxicated with nobility.

In 1838 he married the daughter of Moreau (de l'Oise), who brought him a very large dowry.

Give them a suitable dowry, take care of them, and speak to them always like a friend.

This money she used as a dowry and it aided in consummating her marriage with Cerizet.

Her family—that of the bourgeoisie of Nancy—fooled Castanier about the size of her dowry and her "expectations."