This paper portrays and analyzes marriage in Central Dalmatian communes Split, Zadar and Trogir and compares it to marriage in Southern Dalmatia, in the period from the end of the 13th to the middle of the 14th century. Paper is based on sources, more precisely dowry and marriage documents, several private legal documents of other types and secondary literature. Mentioned documents can be found in the editions of material of four Zadar notaries (Henrik, Cresta Tarallo, Ivan Qualis, Franjo Manfreda de Surdis i Andrija pok. Petra), one Split notary (Ivan pok. Cove) and editions that contain notarial material from medieval municipal archive in Trogir. Secondary literature used in this paper consists mostly of professional papers written by Croatian historians. In their papers they wrote about family structures, dowry and its characteristics, property-legal status of women in relation to their dowry and marital property relations. Analysis of marriage practice is divided into four chapters. First of them analyzes dowry in Split, Zadar and Trogir as one of the most important elements of marriage. Chapter portrays and analyzes forms of dowry, its height, methods of payment, conditions under which it was made and difficulties which accompanied it. Next chapter is about property-legal status of married women and widows as well as marital property relations in Split, Zadar and Trogir. Chapter deals with statutory regulations relating to protection of dowry, rights of husband and wife on it and property-inheritance issues in case of death of one of the spouses. Third chapter deals with impacts of social stratification on marriage and accordingly talks about choice of a spouse and dowry characteristics considering belonging to a social class and certain commune. The last of these four chapters, based on secondary literature, portrays and analyzes dowry, property-legal status of married women and widows, marital property relations and marriage with regard to social stratification in the area of southern Dalmatia, more precisely Dubrovnik and Kotor. It also compares marriage in that area with marriage in Central Dalmatia communes, described in previous three chapters. It was concluded that some basic elements of marriage practice were very similar or even identical in all of analyzed communes but each of them had some special features which put women in more or less favorable position than elsewhere. Those differences were greatly influenced by degree of economic development of a particular commune, its social structure and population mentality. Considering that, women from smaller and less developed communes were in somewhat better position when it came to marriage, property-legal status and rights on inheritance and disposition of property.