dowry

How To Use dowry In A Sentence

• The dowry contract was read aloud and signed by witnesses.
• A six-member troupe of students presented a mime based on unemployment problems of the youth as well as on issues such as dowry and corruption in various Government departments.
• It all began with curbs on open grazing and felling of trees, control on population growth and ban on dowry and alcoholism.
• In 1986, the government of India passed a bill which increased the punishment for accepting dowry and decreed that in cases where a woman died an unnatural death, her property would devolve on her children or be returned to her parents.
• When a man has betrothed one of five women, and does not remember which of the five it is, while each of them claims the right of betrothment, then he is duty bound to give to each a bill of divorcement, and to distribute the dowry due to one among them all. Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
• Her crisp and succinct discussion of dowry is sure to remain the classic analysis of this subject.
• In the past, marriages were arranged and women brought a dowry to the marriage.
• It places immense pressure on the husband and his family, who have to raise large sums of money, and on the bride, who often is forced to marry the suitor who can provide the biggest dowry.
• According to her husband's testament, the lady was returned her dowry and was given the usufruct of her husband's landed property.
• The amount of the dowry is determined through negotiations between the families of the engaged.