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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003 The paper explains dowries and bequests in a comparative perspective using economic theory and historical data.
Botticini, Maristella, Siow, Aloysius
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العادة الدوطة في شبه القارة الهندية وحلولها على ضوء مقاصد الشريعة [PDF]
International Journal of Islamic Thought, 2017 The custom of dowry which has been widespread in the Indian sub-continent is one of the major reasons for domestic violence against women. Moreover, due to dowry system and gender-based inequality, this region kills thousands of women each year according
Mohammad Nurunnabi
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Juridical Investigation on the Role of Prehension in possession of wife on dowry [PDF]
مطالعات زن و خانواده, 2015 Most jurists believe that the wife upon marriage, is the owner of dowry and she is allowed to seal all types of dispossession. But sometimes the wife doesn’t receive her dowry; now the problem is that whether she is allowed any possession when she has ...
Seifollah Ahadi +2 more
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The Jurisprudential Evaluation of the Impact of a Couples’ Death on a Specified Dowry(Mahr in Misamma) [PDF]
فقه و حقوق خانواده, 2022 According to a well-known saying by jurists and consequently according to article 1082, of the civil code, dowry will become the wife’s property of the as soon as the marriage contract is signed; although the wife’s ownership of half of he dowry is ...
meisam khazaee
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The Economics of Dowry: Causes and Effects of an Indian Tradition [PDF]
, 2001 I argue that dowries exist because of a combination of two reasons. First, there is an excess supply of women in the Indian marriage market that results in the use of dowry as an equilibrating mechanism.
Jaggi, Tonushree
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An Analysis of the Shi'ite Jurisprudential Criteria and the Features of Dowry in Line with Deepening the Concepts in Curriculum Books about Family Institution and Marriage [PDF]
پژوهش در آموزش معارف و تربیت اسلامی, 2021 The purpose of the present study is educational analysis of the Shi'ite jurisprudential criteria in terms of the essence of dowry and its features in the curriculum books of high schools.
Hadiseh Jafari Nodehaki, Ahmad Emdadi
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PLoS ONE, 2021 BackgroundDespite the prohibition by the law in 1961, dowry is widely prevalent in India. Dowry stems from the early concept of 'Stridhana,' in which gifts were given to the bride by her family to secure some personal wealth for her when she married ...
Shobhit Srivastava +6 more
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Legal criticism on the current nature of dowry in Iran [PDF]
فقه و حقوق خانواده, 2020 Dowry is the necessities of life that are provided by the woman or her family at the beginning of life. There are ambiguities in the dowry that have caused controversy in the judicial decisions.
Maryam Sadat Mohaghegh Damad
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Islamic jurisprudence and legal review in The nature of the afford to pay dowry term [PDF]
پژوهشنامه حقوق تطبیقی, 2016 On afford term in dowry like other terms in contract should have the correct conditions, this term is not emphasize on the rule of prohibition of reference the creditor to insolvent debtor and in result in this situation dowry is present, because the ...
فوزیه قاسم پور کردکلایی +2 more
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