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dower::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | life estate, estate for life |
Examples of dower
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Upon divorce, the husband must pay the wife any delayed component of the dower.
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Built in 1652, the 16-room hotel was once the dower house for Haddon Hall.
From the express.co.uk
Berengaria eventually settled in Le Mans, one of her dower properties.
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Dower went 11 of 12 from the field and grabbed seven rebounds.
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If the amount of her inheritance is settled by law rather than agreement, it may be called dower.
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Before Queen Elizabeth enlarged it, Birkhall was little more than a small 18th Century dower house.
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In most states, wives have dower rights.
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Six-bedroom Grade II listed former dower house.
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This was the estate's former dower house.
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- Dowry: money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
- Endow: furnish with an endowment; "When she got married, she got dowered"
- A life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband
- (dowered) supplied with a dower or dowry
- Dower or morning gift (Latin doarium, or Latinized Germanic morganaticum; Fr. douaire, German Morgengabe [Morgen, "morning," + Gabe, "gift"]) was a provision accorded by law to a wife for her support in the event that she should survive her husband (i.e., become a widow). ...
- The rights of a widow in the property of her husband at his death.
- The common law interest of a wife in estate of deceased husband.
- The rights of a widow or child to part of a deceased husband's or fathers property.
- A right which a wife has in her husband's property effective at the time of his death.
