Dower - Law Dictionary Search Results
Dotal
Pertaining to dower or a womans marriage portion constituting dower or comprised in it
Dowery
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Dowerless
Destitute of dower having no marriage portion
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Magna Carta
incontinent, and without any difficulty, shall have her marriage, and her inheritance, and shall give nothing for her dower, her marriage, or her inheritance, which her husband and she held the day of the death of her
Dowry
marriage goods, that which the wife brings the husband in marriage. This word should not be confounded with dower, Co. Litt. 31. Means any property or valuable security given or agreed to be given either directly or
Entry
c. 27). All writs of entry and real actions by which lands might have been formerly recovered, except dower, dower unde nihil habet and quare impedit, are abolished, 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27, s. 36.
Free-bench
Free-bench [sedes libera, Lat.], a widow's dower out of copyholds to which she was entitled by the custom of some manors. It is regarded as
Jointure
in the deed particularly expressed to be, in satisfaction of the whole, and not of part of her dower. It may be made either before or after marriage; if made after marriage she may waive it, and
Quarantine, or Quarentaine
not, however, marry against the consent of the Lord; and nothing shall be taken for assignment of her dower, but she shall remain in her husband's capital mansion-house for forty days after his death, during which time
Real action
& 4 Wm. 4, c. 27), s. 37, all real and mixed actions, except writ of right of dower, or writ of dower unde nihil habet, quare impedit, and ejectment, were abolished. By the C. L. P.
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