"Marriage contract" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the only person I trust, and they would have robbed me of her services long ago if my marriage contract did not vest the power ...
— Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess • Henry W. Fischer
... the dowry had to be restored to her in full, and she then returned to her father's house or set up an establishment of her own. Where no dowry had been brought by the bride, the husband was often required by the marriage contract to pay her a specified sum of money in case of her divorce. Thus a marriage contract made in Babylon in the thirteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar stipulates that, if the husband marries a second wife, the act shall be equivalent to a ...
— Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs • Rev. A. H. Sayce
... about ten o'clock. Lights were burning in every window. At a table in the dining-room sat Monsieur and Madame Lavilette, the father of Magon Farcinelle, and Shangois, the notary. The marriage contract was before them. They had reached a point of difficulty. Farcinelle was stipulating for five acres of river-land as another item in ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... consequence, even among the most heterodox Frenchmen. Rejecting all other precedents and authorities, the poor Communists still held to this. Consider, for instance, this translation of a marriage contract under the Commune, which lately came to light in a trial reported in ...
— Women and the Alphabet • Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
