Dower - Law Dictionary Search Results

Widow's Terce

wife has after her husband's death to a third of the rents of his heritable estate in Scotland; dower.

Feodary, or feudary

of the ward, after the office found, and to rate it. He also assigned the kings; widows their dower, and received all the rents, etc. Abolished by 12 Car. 2, c. 24.

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Parapherna

The property of a woman which on her marriage was not made a part of her dower but remained her own

tenancy in tail after possibility of issue extinct, (b) tenancy by the courtesy of England, (c) tenancy in dower. (C) Estates less than freehold, sub-divided into-- (a) Estates for years. (b) Estates at will. (c) Estates at

Autre vie, Estate pur

(English) Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74). It was not subject to dower or curtesy. See Mountcashell (Earl of) v. Moore-Smyth, 1896 AC 158. Estate pur autre vie now devolve on

curtesy

she either solely owned or inherited provided that they bore a child capable of inheriting the property compare dower, elective share

elective share

made in a will or in the event of being disinherited unjustifiably called also forced share compare curtesy, dower

Dowable

Capable of being endowed entitled to dower

Dowager

A widow endowed or having a jointure a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage

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