1) Bounty for a groom 2) Dowery 3) Dowry 4) French word used in English 5) Furnish with an endowment 6) Gift 7) Natural talent 8) To endow 9) To give a dower or dowry
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1) Dowery 2) Dowry
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Dower (dotarium, donatio propter nuptias, Byzantine: ὑπόβολον hypobolon; douaire, weduwgift, Mitgift) is a provision accorded by law, but traditionally by a husband or his family, to a wife for her support in the event that she should survive her husband (i.e., become a widow). It was settled on the bride by agreement at the time of the w...
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• (n.) The property with which a woman is endowed • (n.) That portion of the real estate of a man which his widow enjoys during her life, or to which a woman is entitled after the death of her husband. • (n.) That which a woman brings to a husband in marriage; dowry. • (n.) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gi...
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(from the article `property law`) ...what he has, an interest limited by his life. Hence, his conveyee receives an estate limited by the life of the conveyor (estate pur autre vie). ... In many states the indefeasible share system exists alongside a modernized version of the old common-law estates of dower and curtesy, which have now .....
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n. The widow's common law right to one-third of her late husband's estate. This old English common law is still law in a few states. A widow's election enables her to choose whether to accept the dower rights or the terms of her husband's will. A husband's corresponding right is to the wife's entire estate and if children are living, then to the li...
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Dow'er noun [ French
douaire , Late Latin
dotarium , from Latin
dotare to endow, portion, from
dos dower; akin to Greek ... gift, and to Latin
dare to give. See 1st
Date , and confer
Dot dowry,
Dotation .]
1. That with which one is gif...
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The provision which the law makes for the support of a widow during her lifetime out of income produced by the real estate owned by her husband during the marriage. This provision for the support of a widow is usually favored over the claims of her deceased husband's creditors.
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See: dower and curtesy
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n] - a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband
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noun a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband
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the portion of a deceased husband's real property allowed to his widow for her lifetime. · dowry (def. 1). · a natural gift or endowment.
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