Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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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
valor maritagii
[Latin] Hist. The value of a marriage. ( Under ancient tenures, this was the amount that a female ward forfeited to a guardian when the guardian had offered her a marriage without disparagement (inequality), and she refused. In feudal law, the guardian in chivalry had the right of tendering to a minor ward a suitable match, without disparagement. If the ward refused, she forfeited the value of the marriagr (valor maritagii) to the guardian. - Als( termed (in the accusative) valorem maritagiV (Scots law) avail of marriage "If an infant ward of a guardian in chivalry refused a match tendered by the guardian, he or she forfeited tht value of the marriage (valorem maritagii) to the guardian; that is, so much as a jury would assess, or any one would bona fide give to the guardian for such an alli ance." 2 Alexander M. Burrill Glossary 572-73 (2d ed. 1867