History, Archaeology, Ethnography
The analysis of the existed written sources, special literature and ethnographical materials gives us a chance not to share the opinion about the remains or the reflection of a marriage with ransom in the population of Georgia.
We think that according to the existed materials in Georgia there was neither a marriage with ransom nor its forms but there was rather a high level of inheritance of a woman’s rightful-property position.
In general, the elements of a ransom in the marriage relation appeared from the ancient times. It is possible that in some people it turned into the marriage with ransom but it is not obligatory to spread it on every people in searching the parallels.
Iv. Javachishvili Institute of History and Ethnography