The money or property which a bride brings into marriage (money or property which was given with a daughter in marriage); the dowry. – In older documents also the payment to the lord of the manor for the marriage of a female, a marriage tax of bondmen. For if the daughter of a vassal left the feudal federation (feudal system or manorialism: the contractual relationship between a lord and his vassals; its basic element was the manor, a self-sufficient country estate, or fief, that was under the control of a lord who enjoyed a variety of rights over it and the peasants attached to it), a labor force was lost. – See bride money, feudal money, wedding money, wreath money, paraphernal money, vocation money.
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