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Rationabilis dos

Rationabilis dos, a widow's third, or reasonable dower.

in fee-simple, fee-tail, or for term of life, or in dower, and was disseised, Co. Litt. 158 b; Jac. Law Dict.

fee-simple, or in fee tail, or for life, or in dower, Fitz. N.B. 11 F.; and see Merttens v. Hill, (1901)

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non faciendis, a writ for a woman, who, for her dower, ought not to perform suit of Court, Reg. Brev. 174.

husband of her own accord, and committing adultery, loses her dower, unless her husband takes her back of his own accord.

apply to them. This estate is subject to curtesy and dower. It is dissolvable-- (1) By a voluntary deed of partition;

Triens, a third part; also dower.

Litt. 32a), where there is no marriage there is no dower.

Unde nihil habet. See DOWER.

third of the rents of his heritable estate in Scotland; dower.

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