"Emption" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... marriage-portion, if she died childless, went back to the "house of her father," and as a man who died without issue had to leave his property to his "father's house," and as many had only a life-interest in their property, while the family usually had a right of pre-emption in the case of proposed sales, we see that the family always had a strong hold over property. Not only was it for the man's interest to be registered as of a certain family, but it was also for the family's interest to register all ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters • C. H. W. Johns |
