... Valentinus Krappen, Berlinen. Marchicus, pro conferendo docturae cingulo, & consequendis in u.i. insignibus supremis ... LX. conclusion. ex intricatiss. dotium materia depromptas

Dowry is always and everywhere the primary cause: for it is also in the public interest that dowries be preserved for women, since it is most necessary for the procreation of offspring and the replenishment of the state with children that women be endowed.

II.
In this place, we shall define dowry as a certain right to money, which is given by a woman, or her father, or another on her behalf, to a husband for the sake of marriage.

III.
From this it appears that we would not be wrong to say, with the Jurisconsult Ulpian in the nineteenth book of his commentaries on Sabinus, that it the dowry should be referred not to individual items, but to the entirety.

IIII.
Similarly, it is also made clear from this that the Doctors legal scholars err commonly when they believe that a dowry is called so no less properly when the marriage is dissolved than when it is constant.

V.
For a dowry that has once functioned cannot function again, unless the marriage is otherwise...