The dowry as a legal institution represents a protection of the parents towards the daughter, as a right that granted although it consists of goods that affect him delivered to help in the marital charges, but it really was a family legacy; in the understanding that it was the money, the properties or the goods that the father granted to his female daughters, the patrimony that corresponds to the woman and is an indispensable requirement so that he can contract the marriage, with the purpose that the woman assures the welfare of his widowhood, also as a possible vehicle for the transmission of wealth to his new kinship nuclei.
In a context when talking about giving means to provide a portion of the family wealth that another woman was not allowed to obtain her inheritance, a way of guardianship, at a time belonging to the father of the bride who when delivering it in marriage passed a portion of the family assets to the new family to which the women who took the married life were incorporated.
