mahr

Examples

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• The mahr had been set at Rs. 30.

  Academic text (2004)

• The funds include payment of the dowry (mahr) gifts, formal engagement and wedding parties, purchase of an apartment, and major appliances and furniture.

  Academic text (2003)

• There was limited testimony about the terms of the mahr agreement, but not all of its terms and conditions.

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• "In disregarding the mahr agreement in the case at bar," the court stated, "the parties are not denied justice or a remedy."

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• Thus, the mahr and the prenuptial contract developed to protect different parties and accomplish disparate goals.

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• The wife's counsel has argued that the right to mahr is severable and independent of any other obligations in the marriage contract.

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• Also dissimilar to prenuptials, mahr negotiations do not represent an attempt to bargain around default divorce law.

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• Each voided mahr agreement establishes the misleading precedent that mahr agreements are equivalent to prenuptial contracts when, in fact, the two are conceptually distinct.

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• In other jurisdictions, courts classify the mahr agreement as a prenuptial contract and then proceed to void the mahr agreement for failure to meet the state's statutory standards for prenuptials.

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• Most importantly, the new law provides a way for women to divorce regardless of the legal grounds for their action, so long as they forfeit monetary compensation of the second half of the mahr (dower) and the gifts (jewelry given for the marriage).

  Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

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mahar

vsmahr

• Specialized

9.9

A payment or gift that a groom gives to his bride in a Muslim marriage

is mandatory and required by the Islamic marriage contract

Surface Forms

Etymology