ABSTRACT
The regulations laying down the procedure in the event of the death of one or the other partner of a marriage further make it clear that, whilst husband and wife jointly shared the usufruct, they retained control of their individual property. Such property as the wife had received, either by way of dowry from her father or brother at the time of her marriage, or as part of her inheritance, would remain under her control. The husband could neither sell nor mortage it. When the husband died, and there were no children, the wife might marry again, if she wished, taking her own property and whatever her husband might have given to her. Such a gift was probably normal, imposes a limit of one hundred staters. But the proceeds from her property and what she has 'woven' are not mentioned; so that she presumably lost the right to them, in favour of her children.
