Legal analysis: 1, different concepts, bride price and betrothal price are different, betrothal price is a gift before the two parties confirm their formal love relationship or engagement, and bride price is the etiquette before the final marriage. The bride price is the bride price. In the traditional customs of China, marriage generally needs to go through the following steps: proposal: through the matchmaker, the man proposes to the woman. Marriage: bring the date of birth of both men and women, find someone to marry, and see if both men and women are suitable for marriage. Engagement: to determine the marriage relationship between men and women, and the man gives the bride price to the woman. Determine the time of marriage: the man chooses an auspicious day to get married. Wedding ceremony: Go to the woman's house to marry the bride, and hold a wedding ceremony after returning home. The bride price is the property given to the woman by the man in accordance with Chinese traditional customs in order to establish a husband-wife relationship and live together with the woman. In ancient China, men and women went through six stages from talking about marriage to getting married: receiving gifts, asking names, receiving gifts, receiving gifts, inviting parties and welcoming relatives. Among them, "receiving gifts" means that the man gives the bride price to the woman in order to get married, which has evolved into today's "bride price". Now many places in China have the custom of giving the bride price. In nature, the bride price is a gift, but it is not a general free gift. It is a gift with obligation at the expense of "marriage and cohabitation". Therefore, if the marriage fails, the gift will lose its legal effect and the bride price will be returned to the donor. If there are reasonable expenses from the bride price before marriage, such as spending part of the bride price on wedding preparations, this situation should be returned as appropriate. 2. The responsible party pays the man different bride price money, which is mostly used to buy furniture, household appliances, clothes, etc. And it can also be used to pay for the banquet of the woman, and some directly use the bride price money as the dowry of the woman. The dowry money is paid by the man, and then the woman gives her daughter a dowry and takes her daughter to the man. 3. Bride gifts with different contents are generally items (such as houses, cars, gold, livestock, etc.). )+money (the bride price is relatively small), and the bride price is generally money, and the bride price is the biggest expense for the man to get married. The bride price is the bride price given to the woman when the man is engaged. Employment means "engagement".
Legal basis: Article 10 of Judicial Interpretation II of Marriage Law.
The people's court shall support the request of the parties to return the bride price paid according to the custom if it is found that it belongs to the following circumstances:
(1) Both parties have not gone through the marriage registration formalities;
(2) Both parties have gone through the marriage registration formalities, but they have not lived together;
(3) premarital payment, causing difficulties to the payer.