How come women didn't get their inheritance money before marriage in British customs?

and this is about old times.How come women didn't get their inheritance money before marriage in British customs?
Wealthy families avoided giving land to women who were married or might marry b/c married women's lands automatically belonged to their husbands. The same was not always true of personal property (furniture, dresses, cash) as a legal matter, though as a practical matter the degree of wive's control over their own property varied.





You may be thinking of women's dowries? Money that was settled on the woman when she married and for which the bridegroom's family negotiated? It's a tough question w/a lot of different, nuanced answers. Many, if not most, cultures have included the practice of giving dowries at some time or another. My private theory is that marriage was such a bum deal that women who could support themselves w/o getting married would choose to remain single.How come women didn't get their inheritance money before marriage in British customs?
I think women could inherit things but if they married all their possessions became their husband's.





Basically because women were seen as second class citizens with no rights.