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Our mishnah talks about a man who performs an invalid act of kiddushin and then later on sends presents to the woman whom he tried to betroth. The question is, is the sending of presents equivalent to a renewed and now valid act of betrothal, or are the presents not considered as effecting betrothal?
If he betroths two women with the value of a perutah, or one woman with less than the value of a perutah, even if he subsequently sends gifts, she is not betrothed, because he sent them on account of the first kiddushin, for he has sent those presents only based on his earlier kiddushin (but they are not intended to effect a new kiddushin). The same halachah would apply to a minor who betroths a woman (and sends her bridal presents afterwards).
We explore Donations between spouses, prohibited at the time of Justinian Law called DONA´TIO PROPTER NU´PTIAS
And Kyle Harper’s analysis of marriage in the late antique period.