Thermopyle wrote:

Remember that Ukyou gambled off her dowry to the Gambling King, however...
I'm wondering how this affects the situation.  Judging how the way Ranma
gambled off the Tendou dojo, and that the Gambling King was able to claim
the dojo even though Ranma hadn't yet inherited it or recieved it as a
wedding gift, I would have to say that Ukyou has no real dowry, since the
okonomiyaki cart belongs to the Gambling King immediately upon her loss of
it, even if he didn't claim the cart immediately.  This is based on the way
things worked out with respect to the Tendou dojo, and doesn't try to take
any real laws or believablity into account.

So, Ukyou's dowry was given under false pretenses, that the dowry actually
belonged to either Ukyou or her father, which, from the way the situation
with the dojo was handled, doesn't seem to be the case.

Does anybody else have opinions on how this would work out?  Keep them with
respect to the way the dojo was handled, since reality doesn't apply and
there are no other standards.

    Note that Ukyou's father and Genma were both evidently unaware of that fact.

    This makes it more than bit confusing to understand, and the remifications are either: It's the spirit of the contract (Ukyou's engagement is valid) or the letter of the contract (which, now that I think of it, was verbal, and only implied, at that...) (Ukyou's engagement is not valid.)

    But... this is digressing from C&C to a character debtate -- if you wish to continue the discussion further (and I wouldn't mind) we can talk about it more on the FFML's official IRC server:

    irc.nabiki.com #fanfic