The bride-price is under these circumstances reduced to. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
A bride-price of from ten to twenty rupees is usually paid. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
A bride-price varying from Rs. 25 to Rs. 40 is usually paid. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
No bride-price is paid, and the remarriage of widows is forbidden. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
I went to her bride-price party, which was much like the last one. From Wordnik.com. [An Alaskan in Tanzania......................And on to Honduras] Reference
A bride-price is paid which may vary from Rs. 9 to 20; in the case of. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Amongst the Iraqi and Turkish Kurds the bride-price custom was common. From Wordnik.com. [Kurdish Women.] Reference
The bride-price custom ceased to exist after a number of years in Israel. From Wordnik.com. [Kurdish Women.] Reference
Fell had walked across the glens to Cilfallen and paid bride-price for Gwendolyn. From Wordnik.com. [Ironhand's Daughter]
Gifts made to father-in-law after bridal by bridegroom seem to denote the old bride-price. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
In this story, brides marry rural men, extracting a bride-price, and then running away with the money. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Surplus of Males and Runaway (with the Bride-Price) Brides:] Reference
Marriages were contracted after the bride-price was agreed upon and this was formalized with a handshake. From Wordnik.com. [Kurdish Women.] Reference
But when the parents of the bride are poor they receive a bride-price of Rs. 30, from which they pay the dowry. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
A divorced Kurdish Jewess could marry but her bride-price would be low or waived, depending on the circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Kurdish Women.] Reference
The bride-price varied much, according to the position of the parties, but was in excess of that paid for a slave. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Biblical law in general was of Semitic origins and supported a society that upheld polygyny and bride-price marriages. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Biblical and Rabbinic Women.] Reference
A bride-price is paid which may vary from two pice (farthings) to a hundred rupees, but usually averages about twenty rupees. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
As a rule no bride-price is paid, but occasionally an old man desiring a wife will give something substantial to her father in secret. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Usually a bride-price of Rs. 5 or 10 is then paid to the parents of the girl together with two pieces of cloth intended for their use. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
In the event of conflict or if the woman wished to divorce her husband without any good reason, her family had to repay the bride-price. From Wordnik.com. [Kurdish Women.] Reference
Unless weddings are arranged by exchanging girls between two families, a high bride-price, often amounting to as much as Rs. 60, is paid. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
A bride-price is paid, which consists of four rupees. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala] Reference
Composition, for loss of life, 224. for bride-price, 139. From Wordnik.com. [Old Laws Blog] Reference
The customary bride-price is Rs. 12, but it varies in different localities. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala] Reference
Father Dehon states that the bride-price is five rupees and four maunds of grain. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala] Reference
The recognised bride-price is about twenty rupees, but much larger sums are often paid. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala] Reference
A bride-price of Rs. 5 is customary, but it varies according to the means of the parties. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala] Reference
In the case of the daughter of a headman the bride-price is sometimes as high as Rs. 150. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala] Reference
Odyssean times can be extracted from two passages about the ethna, or bride-price of Penelope. From Wordnik.com. [Homer and His Age] Reference
A small bride-price of three or four rupees and a piece of cloth is payable to the girl's father. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala] Reference
But girls are sought after, and it is customary to pay a bride-price, the average amount of which is Rs. 25. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala] Reference
A bride-price is paid, which in the case of well-to-do families may amount to as much as Rs. 100 to Rs. 400. 6. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala] Reference
A bride-price is usually paid consisting of Rs. 1-4 to Rs. 5 in cash, some grain and a piece of cloth for the bride's mother. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala] Reference
The expenses of an ordinary wedding on the bridegroom's side may be Rs. 100 in addition to the bride-price, and on the bride's. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala] Reference
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