she is granted whatever respite the judge deems appropriate, but it may not exceed three days. The delay is not meant for her menstruation to end, and a minor girl or an ill bride is not delivered to her husband until the impediment to intercourse is removed. The mahr becomes firmly due by consummation—even when the act itself is unlawful, as with a menstruating wife—and by the death of either spouse, but not merely by seclusion, according to the new position.

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If the marriage contract names as mahr wine, a free person, or usurped property, an equivalent mahr becomes obligatory; another opinion requires payment of the item’s market value. Should the mahr consist of both a slave and usurped property, the stipulation concerning the usurped item is void while the part concerning the slave stands, according to the predominant view, and the bride may choose: if she rescinds, she receives an equivalent mahr (another view says the value of the usurped item); if she confirms the contract, she takes the slave together with that portion of an equivalent mahr which corresponds to the value of the usurped item—another opinion says she must be satisfied with what she has.

If the groom says, “I marry you to my daughter and sell you her garment in exchange for this slave,” the marriage, the mahr, and the sale are all valid according to the sounder view, and the value of the slave is apportioned between the garment and an equivalent mahr.

If he marries her for one thousand on condition that the thousand go to her father, or that he give her father one thousand, the school’s position is that the stated mahr is invalid and an equivalent mahr becomes obligatory.

If an option to rescind is stipulated for the marriage itself, the contract is void; if the option pertains only to the mahr, the sounder opinion is that the marriage remains valid but the mahr does not.

All other conditions that either accord with the nature of marriage or serve no relevant purpose are disregarded, and both the marriage and the mahr are sound. If a condition conflicts with, yet does not undermine, the essential purpose of marriage—such as stipulating that he will not take another wife, or that she will forgo maintenance—the marriage is valid while both the condition and the mahr are void. If the condition undermines that purpose—such as agreeing that he will not have intercourse with her or that he must divorce her—the marriage itself is void.

If he marries several women for a single mahr, the dominant view is that the named mahr is invalid and each woman receives an equivalent mahr.

If a guardian contracts a marriage for a minor boy with a mahr above the customary amount, or marries off a woman who lacks legal discretion, or a competent virgin without her permission, the named mahr is void, though the sounder position is that the marriage is valid with an equivalent mahr.

If the parties secretly agree on one mahr but publicly announce a larger amount, the school holds that only the amount agreed upon in the contract is due.

If a woman tells her guardian, “Marry me for one thousand,” and he contracts for less, the marriage is void. If she gives him unrestricted permission and he contracts for less than an equivalent mahr, the marriage is void; another opinion deems it valid with an equivalent mahr.