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Assignment of dower

Assignment of dower, the ascertaining and setting out by metes and bounds of

Dower

4 Wm. 4, c. 27), s. 41. An action for assignment of dower is not within this Act, though the Court may refuse

Limitation of actions and prosecutions

an action (s. 24). But as to an action for assignment of dower, see Williams v. Thomas, (1909) 1 Ch 713. Trustees are

Magna Carta

of her husband, within which days her dower shall be assigned her if it were not assigned her before, or that

Quarantine, or Quarentaine

consent of the Lord; and nothing shall be taken for assignment of her dower, but she shall remain in her husband's capital

Dower unde nihil habet, writ of

remedy for a widow to whom no dower had been assigned within the time limited by law, 3 Bl. Com. 183.

Feodary, or feudary

after the office found, and to rate it. He also assigned the kings; widows their dower, and received all the rents,

Uses

case of terms for years, and other personal property, two assignments ere required for this purpose, until 22 & 23 Vict. … que use had no legal seisin of the land. See DOWER. (6) The cestui que use might have been impanelled on

Equitable estates and interests

in himself, e.g., by contract or by any conveyance or assignment which does not by law transfer or vest the legal … of the words 'real estate' in those Acts). The (English) Dower Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 105), subjected

Tail

fee-simple), unless he evince the contrary intention by taking as assignment of the incumbrance to a trustee in trust for himself, or … It was like a fee-simple formerly subject to curtesy and dower (if not barred); see now s. 130 (4), and see

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