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Causa dotis, vita, libertatis, fisci, sunt inter favorabilia in lege
Causa dotis, vita, libertatis, fisci, sunt inter favorabilia in lege [Lat.], Causes of dower, life, liberty, revenue, are among the favourable things in law....
Doti lex favet; pramium pudoris est, ideo parcature
Doti lex favet; pramium pudoris est, ideo parcature [Lat.], The law favours dower; it is the reward of chastity, therefore is to be preserved....
Dotis administratio
Dotis administratio, admeasurement of dower, where the widow holds more than her share, etc....
Dower
Dower [fr. dos, dotis, Lat., a marriage gift; dotare dower, Fr., endow, to furnish with a marriage portion. Dotarium, M. Lat., dotaire, Prov.; douaire, Fr.; a dowry of marriage provision; douairiere, a widow in possession of her portion, a dowager], the right which a wife has in the third part of the lands and tenements of which her husband dies possessed in fee-simple, fee-tail general, or as heir in special tail, which she holds from and after his decease, in severalty by metes and bounds, for her life, whether she have issue by her husband or not, and of what age soever she may be at her husband's decease, provided she be past the age of nine years.The legal estate in dower (being an estate for life) has been abolished and converted into an equitable interest (ibid.), (English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 1; it can only arise in respect of deaths after 1925 in case the deceased husband was a lunatic or defective on January 1st, 1925, and died without regaining testamentary capacity or before...
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