HIS 13 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Coverture, Bride Price, Legal Personality
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Lecture 9 - child marriage around the world. Read "not that sort of women" by monday. Coverture - marriage turns the pair into one legal person, the husband represents this entity. Notion that the husband is expected to maintain his wife/wives; provide for his wife. She keeps her property in the marriage, it does not belong to the household. Women and men are both expected to provide sexually, if one is unable/not willing, there could be grounds for divorce. Men are allowed up to four wives as long as they can maintain them. Puberty is considered the age of consent for marriage, puberty has no numerical age. Monetary or amount of property that is exchanged from the groom"s family to the bride"s family paid over many years to continue a relationship between families. Often paid at birth of the first child. A gift, or insurance that the husband will behave well in the.
