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Dower
Dower [fr. dos, dotis, Lat., a marriage gift; dotare dower, Fr., endow, to furnish with a marriage portion. Dotarium, M. Lat., dotaire, Prov.; douaire, Fr.; a … and purchaser; as if a wife contract before marriage to relinquish her dower, either in consideration of a substituted provision or of marriage, which is valuable in itself and the highest consideration known to the law. The
Tail
Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833, entitled 'An Act for the Abolition of Fines and Recoveries, and for the Substitution of more Simple Modes of Assurance,' which received the royal assent August 28, 1833, and has not been … before 1926 not necessary, if upon construction it appeared that the words were terms of limitation and not gifts to children or issue as purchasers or otherwise; thus a devise. To A. and his issue; or To
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