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Recto de dote unde nihil habet

de dote unde nihil habet, a writ of right of dower whereof she had nothing, which lay where her deceased husband,

In default of the above, see BONA VACANTIA. See also DOWER; INHERITANCE; DISTRIBUTION, STATUTE OF; INTESTATES' ESTATES ACT (for deaths before

was essential to a lawful marriage, at all events for dower and heirship; but if in an irregular marriage the Ecclesiastical

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Pertaining to dower or a womans marriage portion constituting dower or comprised in

& 4 Wm. 4, c. 27, except a writ of dower, or writ of dower unde nihil habet, which were in

than their share, in the two following cases; admeasurement of dower, where the widow held from the heir more land, etc.,

of the words 'real estate' in those Acts). The (English) Dower Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 105), subjected

also an equivalent in recompense; a recompense in lieu of dower ad ostium ecclesi', 1 Reves, 101 and 103.

to rate it. He also assigned the kings; widows their dower, and received all the rents, etc. Abolished by 12 Car.

Hypobolum, a legacy to a wife above her dower, Civ. Law.

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