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

Some do so voluntarily, while others are sometimes compelled by the necessity of law to constitute a dowry.

XVII.
A father is primarily compelled by Proconsuls and provincial governors to constitute a dowry for his natural and legitimate daughters: since it is entirely a paternal duty to provide a dowry for his own offspring, lest she choose a shameful life to the great disgrace of the family.

XVIII.
Furthermore, it was also sanctioned by Justinian that if a wealthy father promised that he would give a dowry to his daughter, partly from his own goods and partly from the daughter's adventitious goods, he is understood nonetheless to have endowed the daughter only from his own patrimony, since he has not been freed from the provision of the dowry on account of the daughter's adventitious property.

XIX.
In this, however, all Doctors—along with Bartolus Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Alciatus Andreas Alciatus, and Franciscus Connanus—agree with one voice: namely, that a father is not strictly required to endow his daughter with her own adventitious property, but I fear that the contrary is not more probable and more...