They need to show how valuable their daughter. You know it is believed that they have spent money on the woman and they can't give her free.
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A dowry is the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings forth to a marriage.
"Dowry" is a noun. It refers to the money, goods, or property that a woman brings to her husband in marriage.
Husband refuses to sign dowry on property being purchased
gift (for the bride from the husband on their marriage)
we can remove dowry by educating people that its not parents responsibility to spend alot on daughter marriage.
Noble women of the Middle Ages were expected to bring a dowry to the marriage.
The IPC 498a is Dowry Act. P.S. - But, wives along with her parents and siblings (sometimes her boy friend also), low police officers, and worst of all judges misuse Dowry Act as a Marriage Act. Initially, under Dowry Act husband and his relatives are immediately arrested and jailed thereafter in the court of law Dowry Act is converted unofficially and unfaithfully into Marriage Act to further harrass them stringently for several years. Please also see what is dowry act?
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The most common use for a woman's dowry was economical rather than social. A dowry often ensured marriage to wealthier men.
The "price" a man has to agree to pay his prospective father-in-law to get the father's approval for his daughter's hand in marriage.
One thing that interests me about Hinduism is their laws regarding dowry where the woman pays dowry.