Legal Definition and Related Resources of Maritagium
Meaning of Maritagium
(Lat.) A portion given with a daughter in marriage. During the existence of the feudal law, it was the right which the lord of the fee had, under certain tenures, to dispose of the daughters of his vassal in marriage. Beames, Glanv. 138, note; Bracton, 21a; Spelman; 2 Bl. Comm. 69; Co. Litt. 21b, 76a.
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Concept of “Maritagium”
Traditional meaning of maritagium in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) Marriage; see 2nd Book (“The Rights of Things”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 70.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Maritagium”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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