ON DOWRIES, CONCLUSION I.

I.
The cause of Dotium Dowries is always and everywhere the primary one. For it is also in the public interest that dowries be preserved for women, since it is most necessary that women be endowed for the procreation of offspring and the filling of the city with children.

II.
The term Dos Dowry is ambiguous, since in our Law it is sometimes transferred to the virtues of the mind and body, and also to inanimate things.

III.
In this place, however, we define a dowry as nothing other than a certain right of money, which is granted to the husband by the woman, or by another on her behalf, for the sake of marriage.

IIII.
From which it appears that we are not wrong to say with the jurist Ulpian that it should be referred not to individual bodies, but to a totality.

V.
Similarly, it is also rendered clear from this that interpreters commonly err, thinking that a dowry is called so no less properly when the marriage is dissolved than when it is subsisting.

VI.
For a dowry which has once fulfilled its purpose cannot fulfill it again, unless another marriage takes place. Just as it is made on account of marriage, so without marriage it is understood to be nothing.

VII.
And this is also the reason that those who have contracted wicked and incestuous marriages are said to have none, neither a putative dowry nor an exaction of a dowry.

VIII.
Which is understood concerning almost all contracting parties,