DAUGHTER, a female child. Daughters, among the ancients, were more frequently exposed than sons, as they required greater charge to educate and settle them in the world. Those who had no legitimate sons were obliged by the Athenian laws to leave their estates to their daughters, who were confined to marry their nearest relations, or otherwise to forfeit their inheritance; as we find to have been practised likewise among the Jews, many of whose laws seem to have been transcribed by Solon.