Die Mitgift. Beiträge zur Ausdeutung des traditionellen Familienmodells im ungarischen Ehegüterrecht
Dowry. Inputs to Interpretation of Traditional Family Model in Hungarian Matrimonial Property Law

Summary/Abstract: Dowry, as part of the married women’s property was present in the traditional, than in the civil era of the civil law, independent of the nobility or other social standing. Though Béni Grosschmid mentioned dowry as „scant“ or „incidental“, still he made place for this institution as alternative for the women’s free property in the first draft for the Civil Code (1900). The author of this essay used original archive records of civil cases from the Baranya County Archives, and analyzes the form and content of the dowry in the everyday life during the second half of the 19th century.

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