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A Treatise on the Law of Dower
Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of Dower: Particularly With a View to the Modern Practice of Conveyancing IN treating of Dower, it has been customary to consider it as founded on the three successive circumstances of Ma1r1age, Seisin, and Death Of the Husband. The concurrence of the two former is properly the ground -work of the title Of dower; the latter 18 its consummation. This chronological arrangement having at least the convenience of Obviousness, has been here followed. The subject of Marriage, so far as it is connected with the law of Dower, is Open to considerations which call for some degree of attention and discrimination on the part of the student, and may even exercise the ac...
DRAGON'S DOWER
Simon Warleigh and his brothers-in-arms had sworn to avenge the murder of their beloved foster father, the Dragon. But upon Simon's return from the Holy Land, the brave knight was falsely accused of treason and stripped of his lands. His only chance to recover his beloved Avington was to marry the daughter of the very man he had vowed to bring to justice! Simon was quickly wed to the beautiful Lady Isabelle, with her mesmerizing violet eyes and a demeanor as cold as the chapel statues. Yet there were glimpses of the fire burning beneath Isabelle's cool exterior. And soon thoughts of revenge turned to thoughts of love as Simon yearned to melt the ice maiden into a woman of flesh and blood.
Embedding Mahr (Islamic Dower) in the European Legal System
Globalization and migration have served to make European societies multicultural to an unprecedented extent, but they have also increasingly brought multicultural life into the courtrooms and administrative institutions. However, there remains a lack of in-depth research investigating particular issues of Muslim family law and how these interact with society on an unofficial level, as well as in relation to the official legal processes. It is especially this latter aspect, i.e. how alternative norms play out in the formal courts, which is the focus of this book, with mahr as the main reference point. Ã?Â?Mahr, usually translated as dower (to distinguish it from dowry as the contribution wh...
