(marriage) portion

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• marriage portion — n. DOWRY …   English World dictionary

• marriage-portion — marrˈiage portion noun A dowry • • • Main Entry: ↑marriage …   Useful english dictionary

• marriage portion — The same as the dot of the French. The property which a woman brings to her husband upon her marriage. Croft, Petitioner, 162 Mass 22, 27, 37 NE 784 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• marriage portion — dowry. [1760 70] * * * …   Universalium

• marriage portion — dowry, bride price …   English contemporary dictionary

• marriage portion — /ˈmærɪdʒ pɔʃən/ (say marij pawshuhn) noun → dowry …  

• marriage portion — noun : dower …   Useful english dictionary

• marriage — Legal union of one man and one woman as husband and wife. Singer v. Kara, 11 Wash.App. 247, 522 P.2d 1187, 1193. Marriage, as distinguished from the agreement to marry and from the act of becoming married, is the legal status, condition, or… …   Black's law dictionary

• marriage — Legal union of one man and one woman as husband and wife. Singer v. Kara, 11 Wash.App. 247, 522 P.2d 1187, 1193. Marriage, as distinguished from the agreement to marry and from the act of becoming married, is the legal status, condition, or… …   Black's law dictionary

• portion — Synonyms and related words: Friday, Friday the thirteenth, adjunct, administer, allocate, allocation, allot, allotment, allowance, amount, antepast, appanage, appointed lot, apportion, apportionment, assign, assignment, astral influences,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• portion — noun 1》 a part or share.     ↘an amount of food suitable for or served to one person.     ↘Law the part or share of an estate given or descending by law to an heir. 2》 archaic a person s destiny or lot. 3》 (also marriage portion) archaic a dowry …   English new terms dictionary