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AVAIL MARRIAGE [1 record]

Record 1 2010-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • History (General)
  • Family Law (common law)
DEF

The value of the right of marriage, which the lord or guardian was entitled to receive from a suitable person who desired to marry his infant ward, and which could be forfeited by the ward to the lord or guardian if the ward did not marry.

OBS

The avail of marriage was abolished by the Tenures Abolition Act, 1747.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoire (Généralités)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
CONT

[T]ant que l'enfant était sous la tutelle du Seigneur féodal, celui-ci pouvait lui offir le parti qu'il jugeait convenable, pourvu que ce parti ne fût pas d'une condition inégale à la sienne. Dans ce cas, si le pupille refusait le parti proposé, son tuteur était en droit de confisquer à son profit la valeur du mariage, (valorem maritagii) [...]

Spanish

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