Manus marriage

The Manusehe was one of the many forms of marriage in the Roman Empire. It was common at the time of kings and the early Roman Republic. Manus meaning "hand " and the special was in this form of marriage that the wife from her father's hand in that of her husband, or the father, if the husband was still under patria potestas, passed. You therefore no longer belonged to her family of origin, but in the family of her husband. In contrast to the "manus - free" marriage divorce was practically impossible and the dowry belonged to her husband permanently. In the late Republic and the imperial period the Manusehe was barely closed.

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