The Legal Research On Normalized Daughter In Song Dynasty

The normalized daughters are a special group. They are different from the neverunmarried woman who still live in family, and also different from the married womenwhose marriage still exists.They have had a marriage, because of divorcing or the deadof they husband,then they returned to the parents’family.In the existing research, thereis little specifically academic papers for the normalized daughters.In The Song Dynasty, the normalized daughters are in a contradictory socialstatus.On the one hand, the right to property and economy improved, on the otherhand, the phenomenon of sale wives and daughters was serious,and the status of thesituation to reduce.In property,the law first time defined that the normalized daughtershave the right to inherit property from their parents.But for the ownership of thedowry,there is no uniform opinion that weather they can be brought back to thenormalized daughters’ family.In economic rights,the following economic life in thefamily by Punishment and the ritual system.Naturalization cases of dissolution of themarriage, after all, only a temporary choice.Latter the normalized daughter still need tochoose their life,or remarry,or remarriage,or remarry parent home.