Bride money (nuptial money, highest bid; safeguarding fund; dowry; introduction payment; nuptial mass donation)

In the past, a common payment due no later than the wedding day to the bride’s father and brothers by a marriage candidate. This was seen as compensation for the bride’s labor being taken away from her family. – Payment by the highest bidder – also called licitant in older literature – in the case of forced marriage of a woman; in Germany, this is prohibited by law under § 237 StGB. – Capital to be provided by the – groom, – usually administered in trust and – invested in interest-bearing investments with the purpose of – securing the livelihood of the wife and children from the proceeds of the capital in the event of divorce or the early death of the husband as breadwinner of the family (transfer of capital aimed at ensuring the continued existence of the family in the case of missed income). – The dowry of the family of origin at the marriage of a bride, sometimes said in a broader sense (dowry, dowry, allata; dowry, marriage portion: belongings brought by a bride to her husband at marriage). – In some places a formerly customary gift of money from the out-of-town bridegroom to the resident single young men, a local introduction payment (bridegroom debut donation), in old documents also called alley money and hunting money. – A customary donation by the newly married couple (bridal couple donation) or in some places also by the parents of the newly married to the church or to the sexton (sacristan, sexton) after the wedding service (the nuptial mass; nuptial mass: the special mass to be said at a wedding), also called bridal mass money. – See Apanage, Einbürgerungsgeld, Fräuleingeld, Gegengeld, Hielichgeld, Hochzeitsgeld, Hochzeitstischgeld, Jagdgeld, Kranzgeld, Küchengeld, Maritagium, Nadelgeld, Paraphernalgeld, Vokationsgeld, Wittum.

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