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Dos was given for the purpose of enabling the husband to maintain the charges of the wedding state . All the property of the wife which was not dowry, or was not a donatio propter nuptias, continued to be her personal property, and was referred to as Parapherna.
Women, in apply, usually did maintain control over their dowry after marriage. Dowries had been a common custom in the early colonial years, however were passing out of use by the mid-18th century.