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

...and more supported by the protection of equity. For what reason of law or kindness of equity allows us to interpret more sweetly that which a mother or others left for the sake of the daughters, to their destruction and detriment?

XX.
Therefore, must we confess that this paternal duty in endowing a daughter is entirely perpetual? Certainly it does not seem so. For what if she has sinned against her own body, not yet having reached her 25th year; or if she has fallen away from true piety and religion; or has been ungrateful toward her father: would she not justly and deservedly be punished with the loss of her dowry, so that she might pay the penalty for this transgression?

XXI.
But it has also been very often established that dowries are not to be constituted by an indebted father in fraud of his creditors.

XXII.
Furthermore, we believe an adopted daughter is to be endowed equally as a natural and legitimate one.

XXIII.
And we acknowledge the same law is observed in an emancipated daughter...