Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

duplex valor maritagii

n. [Law Latin "double the value of a marriage"] Hist. A ward's forfeiture of double the value of a marriage made without the guardian's consent. 0 In the quotation that follows, Blackstone uses the accusative form (duplicem valorem maritagii) because the phrase follows the verb forfeited. "For, while the infant was in ward, the guardian had the power of tendering him or her a suitable match, without disparagement, or inequality: which if the infants refused, they forfeited the value of the marriage ... to their guardian; that is, so much a