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Recto de dote
Recto de dote, a writ of right of dower, which lay for a widow who had received part of her dower, and demanded the residue, against the
Tail
interest possesses the follow-ing incidents and privileges:- (1) It was like a fee-simple formerly subject to curtesy and dower (if not barred); see now s. 130 (4), and see DOWER. (2) With the exception of a tenant-in-tail
Widow
Husband and wife, beneficiaries, count as two persons. In default of the above, see BONA VACANTIA. See also DOWER; INHERITANCE; DISTRIBUTION, STATUTE OF; INTESTATES' ESTATES ACT (for deaths before 1926). Widows are privileged by many statutes-see, e.g.,
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Uses
his curtesy of a use, because the cestui que use had no legal seisin of the land. See DOWER. (6) The cestui que use might have been impanelled on a jury, 2 Hen. 5, c. 3. (7)
Recto de dote unde nihil habet
Recto de dote unde nihil habet, a writ of right of dower whereof she had nothing, which lay where her deceased husband, having divers lands or tenements, had assured no
Money land
not to be personal assets; 2ndly, to be subject to the curtesy of the husband, and (under the Dower Act) the dower of the wife; 3rdly, to pass as land by will, if subject to the real
Droit
in our law were all abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27, except a writ of dower, or writ of dower unde nihil habet, which were in their turn abolished by the (English) C.L.P. Act,
Admeasurement, writ of
of. It lay against persons who usurped more than their share, in the two following cases; admeasurement of dower, where the widow held from the heir more land, etc., as dower than rightly belonged to her; and
Equitable estates and interests
of Estate Act, 1925 (upon the legal interpretation of the words 'real estate' in those Acts). The (English) Dower Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 105), subjected equitable estates to dower, and the (English) Intestates
Marriage
marriage. A religious ceremony by an ordained clergyman was essential to a lawful marriage, at all events for dower and heirship; but if in an irregular marriage the Ecclesiastical Court could discern a valid promise to marry,
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