Dower
31dower consummate — The right of a widow to her dower in her husband s real property which accrues to her immediately upon his death. Upon the husband s death, the widow s right of dower becomes consummate. It has ceased to be a contingency. But still it remains a… …
32dower house — noun Britain : a residence forming part of the dower of or intended for the use of a widow and usually being a less pretentious dwelling on the same grounds as the family residence * * * Brit. the dwelling that is intended for or occupied by the… …
33dower ad ostium ecclesiae — /dawar id ostiyam akliyziyiy/ Dower at the church door or porch. An ancient kind of dower in England, where a man (being tenant in fee simple, of full age), openly at the church door, where all marriages were formerly celebrated, after affiance… …
34dower ex assensu patris — /dawar eks asens(hXy)uw psetras/ Dower by the father s assent. A species of dower ad ostium ecclesiae, made when the husband s father was alive, and the son, by his consent expressly given, endowed his wife with parcel of his father s lands. 2 Bl …
35dower ad ostium ecclesiae — /dawar id ostiyam akliyziyiy/ Dower at the church door or porch. An ancient kind of dower in England, where a man (being tenant in fee simple, of full age), openly at the church door, where all marriages were formerly celebrated, after affiance… …
36dower ex assensu patris — /dawar eks asens(hXy)uw psetras/ Dower by the father s assent. A species of dower ad ostium ecclesiae, made when the husband s father was alive, and the son, by his consent expressly given, endowed his wife with parcel of his father s lands. 2 Bl …
37dower by common law — The ordinary kind of dower in English and American law, consisting of a life interest in one third of the lands of which the husband was seised in fee at any time during the coverture. 2 Bl. Comm. 132. Abolished by the Administration of Estates… …
38dower by custom — A kind of dower in England, regulated by custom, where the quantity allowed the wife different from the proportion of the common law; as that the wife should have half the husband s lands; or, in some places, the whole; and, in some, only a… …
39dower unde nihil habet — /dawar andiy nay(h)al heybst/ A writ of right which lay for a widow to whom no dower had been assigned …
40dower by common law — The ordinary kind of dower in English and American law, consisting of a life interest in one third of the lands of which the husband was seised in fee at any time during the coverture. 2 Bl. Comm. 132. Abolished by the Administration of Estates… …
