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dower
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Dower
(gcide) | Dower \Dow"er\, n. [F. douaire, LL. dotarium, from L. dotare to
endow, portion, fr. dos dower; akin to Gr. ? gift, and to L.
dare to give. See 1st Date, and cf. Dot dowry,
Dotation.]
1. That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
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How great, how plentiful, how rich a dower! --Sir J.
Davies.
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Man in his primeval dower arrayed. --Wordsworth.
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2. The property with which a woman is endowed; especially:
(a) That which a woman brings to a husband in marriage;
dowry. [Obs.]
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His wife brought in dower Cilicia's crown.
--Dryden.
(b) (Law) 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.
--Blackstone.
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Note: Dower, in modern use, is and should be distinguished
from dowry. The former is a provision for a widow on
her husband's death; the latter is a bride's portion on
her marriage. --Abbott.
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Assignment of dower. See under Assignment.
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dower
(wn) | dower
n 1: money or property brought by a woman to her husband at
marriage [syn: dowry, dowery, dower, portion]
2: a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her
husband
v 1: furnish with an endowment; "When she got married, she got
dowered" [syn: endow, dower] |
DOWER
(bouvier) | DOWER. An estate for life, which the law gives the widow in the third part
of the lands and tenements, or hereditaments of which the husband, was
solely seised, at any time during the coverture, of an estate in fee or in
tail, in possession, and to which estate in the lands and tenements, the
issue, if any, of such widow might, by possibility, have inherited. Watk.
Prin. Con. 38; Litt. Sec. 36; 7 Greenl. 383. Vide Estate in Dower. This is
dower at common law.
2. Besides this, in England there are three other species of dower now
subsisting; namely, dower by custom, which is, where a widow becomes
entitled to a certain portion of her husband's lands in consequence of some
local or particular custom, thus by the custom of gavelkind, the widow is
entitled to a moiety of all the lands and tenements, which her husband held
by that tenure.
3. Dower ad ostium ecclesiae, is, when a man comes to the church door
to be married, after troth plighted, endows his wife of a certain portion of
his lands.
4. Dower ex assensu patris, was only a species of dower ad ostium
ecclesice, made when the husband's father was alive, and the son, with his
consent expressly given, endowed his wife, at the church door, of a certain
part of his father's lands.
5. There was another kind, de la plus belle, to which the abolition of
military tenures has put an end. Vide Cruise's Dig. t. 6, c. 1; 2 Bl. Com.
129; 15 Serg. & Rawle, 72 Poth. Du Douaire.
6. Dower is barred in various ways; 1. By the adultery of the wife,
unless it has been condoned. 2. By a jointure settled upon the wife. 2
Paige, R. 511. 3. By the wife joining her husband in a conveyance of the
estate. 4. By the husband and wife levying a fine, or suffering a common
recovery. 10 Co. 49, b Plowd. 504. 5. By a divorce a vinculo matrimonii. 6.
By an acceptance, by the wife, of a collateral satisfaction, consisting of
land, money, or other chattel interest, given instead of it by the husband's
will, and accepted after the husband's death. In these cases she has a right
to elect whether to take her dower or the bequest or devise. 4 Monr. R. 265;
5 Monr. R. 58; 4 Desaus. R. 146; 2 M'Cord, Ch. R. 280; 7 Cranch, R. 370; 5
Call, R. 481; 1 Edw. R. 435 3 Russ. R. 192; 2 Dana, R. 342.
7. In some of the United States, the estate which the wife takes in the
lands of her deceased husband, varies essentially from the right of dower at
common law. In some of the states, she takes one-third of the profits, or in
case of there being no children, one half. In others she takes the same
right in fee, when there are no lineal descendants; and in one she takes
two-thirds in fee, when there are no lineal ascendants or descendants, or
brother or sister of the whole or half blood. 1 Hill. Ab. 57, 8; see Bouv.
Inst. Index, h.t.
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dower
(encz) | dower,vdovský podíl Zdeněk Brož |
dowered
(encz) | dowered, adj: |
dowerless
(encz) | dowerless, adj: |
dowery
(encz) | dowery, n: |
glendower
(encz) | Glendower, |
grass widower
(encz) | grass widower, n: |
shadower
(encz) | shadower, n: |
widower
(encz) | widower,vdovec |
Assignment of dower
(gcide) | Assignment \As*sign"ment\, n. [LL. assignamentum: cf. OF.
assenement.]
1. An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or
use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in
court.
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2. (Law)
(a) A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of
lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of
the whole of some particular estate or interest in
lands.
(b) The writing by which an interest is transferred.
(c) The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain
persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the
benefit of creditors.
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Assignment of dower, the setting out by metes and bounds of
the widow's thirds or portion in the deceased husband's
estate, and allotting it to her.
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Note: Assignment is also used in law as convertible with
specification; assignment of error in proceedings for
review being specification of error; and assignment of
perjury or fraud in indictment being specifications of
perjury or fraud.
[1913 Webster]Dower \Dow"er\, n. [F. douaire, LL. dotarium, from L. dotare to
endow, portion, fr. dos dower; akin to Gr. ? gift, and to L.
dare to give. See 1st Date, and cf. Dot dowry,
Dotation.]
1. That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
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How great, how plentiful, how rich a dower! --Sir J.
Davies.
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Man in his primeval dower arrayed. --Wordsworth.
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2. The property with which a woman is endowed; especially:
(a) That which a woman brings to a husband in marriage;
dowry. [Obs.]
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His wife brought in dower Cilicia's crown.
--Dryden.
(b) (Law) 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.
--Blackstone.
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Note: Dower, in modern use, is and should be distinguished
from dowry. The former is a provision for a widow on
her husband's death; the latter is a bride's portion on
her marriage. --Abbott.
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Assignment of dower. See under Assignment.
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Dowered
(gcide) | Dowered \Dow"ered\, p. a.
Furnished with, or as with, dower or a marriage portion.
--Shak.
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Dowerless
(gcide) | Dowerless \Dow"er*less\, a.
Destitute of dower; having no marriage portion. --Shak.
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Dowery
(gcide) | Dowery \Dow"er*y\, n.
See Dower.
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Endower
(gcide) | Endower \En*dow"er\, v. t. [Cf. OF. endouairer. See Dower,
Endow.]
To endow. [Obs.] --Waterhouse.
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One who endows.
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Overshadower
(gcide) | Overshadower \O"ver*shad"ow*er\, n.
One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything. --Bacon.
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To assign dower
(gcide) | Assign \As*sign"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assigned; p. pr. & vb.
n. Assigning.] [OE. assignen, asignen, F. assigner, fr. L.
assignare; ad + signare to mark, mark out, designate, signum
mark, sign. See Sign.]
1. To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
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In the order I assign to them. --Loudon.
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The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better
station than that in which his lot had been
assigned. --Southey.
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He assigned to his men their several posts.
--Prescott.
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2. To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out
authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to
assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial.
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All as the dwarf the way to her assigned. --Spenser.
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It is not easy to assign a period more eventful.
--De Quincey.
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3. (Law) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to
transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called
assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
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To assign dower, to set out by metes and bounds the widow's
share or portion in an estate. --Kent.
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Undowered
(gcide) | Undowered \Undowered\
See dowered. |
Widower
(gcide) | Widower \Wid"ow*er\, n.
A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married
again. --Shak.
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Widowerhood
(gcide) | Widowerhood \Wid"ow*er*hood\, n.
The state of being a widower.
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dower
(wn) | dower
n 1: money or property brought by a woman to her husband at
marriage [syn: dowry, dowery, dower, portion]
2: a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her
husband
v 1: furnish with an endowment; "When she got married, she got
dowered" [syn: endow, dower] |
dowered
(wn) | dowered
adj 1: supplied with a dower or dowry |
dowerless
(wn) | dowerless
adj 1: lacking a dowry |
dowery
(wn) | dowery
n 1: money or property brought by a woman to her husband at
marriage [syn: dowry, dowery, dower, portion] |
glendower
(wn) | Glendower
n 1: Welsh chieftain who led a revolt against Henry IV's rule in
Wales (1359-1416) [syn: Glendower, Owen Glendower] |
grass widower
(wn) | grass widower
n 1: a man who is divorced from (or separated from) his wife
[syn: grass widower, divorced man] |
owen glendower
(wn) | Owen Glendower
n 1: Welsh chieftain who led a revolt against Henry IV's rule in
Wales (1359-1416) [syn: Glendower, Owen Glendower] |
shadower
(wn) | shadower
n 1: a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
[syn: tail, shadow, shadower] |
widower
(wn) | widower
n 1: a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not
remarried [syn: widower, widowman] |
ADMEASUREMENT OF DOWER
(bouvier) | ADMEASUREMENT OF DOWER, remedies. This remedy is now nearly obsolete, even
in England; the following account of it is given by Chief Baron Gilbert.
"The writ of admeasurement of dower lieth where the heir when he is within
age, and endoweth the wife of more than she ought to have dower of; or if
the guardian in chivalry, [for the guardian in socage cannot assign dower,]
endoweth the wife of more than one-third part of the land of which she ought
to have dower, then the heir, at full age, may sue out this writ against the
wife, and thereby shall be admeasured, and the surplusage she hath in dower
shall be restored to the heir; but in such case there shall not be assigned
anew any lands to hold to dower, but to take from her so much of the lands
as surpasseth the third part whereof she ought to be endowed; and he need
not set forth of whose assignments she holds." Gilb. on Uses, 379; and see
F. N. B. 148; Bac. Ab. Dower, K; F. N. B. 148; Co. Litt. 39 a; 2 Inst. 367
Dower; Estate in Dower.
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ASSIGNMENT OF DOWER
(bouvier) | ASSIGNMENT OF DOWER. The act by which the rights of a widow, in her deceased
husband's real estate, are ascertained and set apart for her benefit. 2
Bouv. Inst. 242.
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DOWER
(bouvier) | DOWER. An estate for life, which the law gives the widow in the third part
of the lands and tenements, or hereditaments of which the husband, was
solely seised, at any time during the coverture, of an estate in fee or in
tail, in possession, and to which estate in the lands and tenements, the
issue, if any, of such widow might, by possibility, have inherited. Watk.
Prin. Con. 38; Litt. Sec. 36; 7 Greenl. 383. Vide Estate in Dower. This is
dower at common law.
2. Besides this, in England there are three other species of dower now
subsisting; namely, dower by custom, which is, where a widow becomes
entitled to a certain portion of her husband's lands in consequence of some
local or particular custom, thus by the custom of gavelkind, the widow is
entitled to a moiety of all the lands and tenements, which her husband held
by that tenure.
3. Dower ad ostium ecclesiae, is, when a man comes to the church door
to be married, after troth plighted, endows his wife of a certain portion of
his lands.
4. Dower ex assensu patris, was only a species of dower ad ostium
ecclesice, made when the husband's father was alive, and the son, with his
consent expressly given, endowed his wife, at the church door, of a certain
part of his father's lands.
5. There was another kind, de la plus belle, to which the abolition of
military tenures has put an end. Vide Cruise's Dig. t. 6, c. 1; 2 Bl. Com.
129; 15 Serg. & Rawle, 72 Poth. Du Douaire.
6. Dower is barred in various ways; 1. By the adultery of the wife,
unless it has been condoned. 2. By a jointure settled upon the wife. 2
Paige, R. 511. 3. By the wife joining her husband in a conveyance of the
estate. 4. By the husband and wife levying a fine, or suffering a common
recovery. 10 Co. 49, b Plowd. 504. 5. By a divorce a vinculo matrimonii. 6.
By an acceptance, by the wife, of a collateral satisfaction, consisting of
land, money, or other chattel interest, given instead of it by the husband's
will, and accepted after the husband's death. In these cases she has a right
to elect whether to take her dower or the bequest or devise. 4 Monr. R. 265;
5 Monr. R. 58; 4 Desaus. R. 146; 2 M'Cord, Ch. R. 280; 7 Cranch, R. 370; 5
Call, R. 481; 1 Edw. R. 435 3 Russ. R. 192; 2 Dana, R. 342.
7. In some of the United States, the estate which the wife takes in the
lands of her deceased husband, varies essentially from the right of dower at
common law. In some of the states, she takes one-third of the profits, or in
case of there being no children, one half. In others she takes the same
right in fee, when there are no lineal descendants; and in one she takes
two-thirds in fee, when there are no lineal ascendants or descendants, or
brother or sister of the whole or half blood. 1 Hill. Ab. 57, 8; see Bouv.
Inst. Index, h.t.
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DOWER UNDE NIHIL HABET
(bouvier) | DOWER UNDE NIHIL HABET. This is a writ of right in its nature. It lies only
against the tenant of the freehold. 12 Mass. 415 2 Saund. 43, note 1; Hen. &
Munf. 368 F. N. B. 148. It is a writ of entry, where the widow is deforced
of the whole of her dower. Archb. Plead. 466, 7. A writ of right of dower
lies for the whole or a part. 1 Rop. on Prop. 430; Steph. on Pl. 10. n;
Booth, R. A. 166; Glanv. lib. 4. c. 4, 5; 9 S. & R. 367. If the heir is
fourteen years of age, the writ goes to him, if not, to his guardian. If the
land be wholly aliened, it goes to the tenant, F. N. B. 7, or pernor of the
profits, who may vouch the heir. If part only be aliened, the writ goes to
the heir or guardian. The tenant cannot impart; 2 Saund. 44, n;. 1 Rop. on
Prop. 430; the remedy being speedy. Fleta, lib. 5. o. 25, Sec. 8, p. 427. He
pleads without defence. Rast. Ent. 232, b. lib. Int. fo. 15; Steph. Pl. 431
Booth, 118; Jackson on Pl. 819.
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NE UNQUES SEISIE QUIZ DOWER
(bouvier) | NE UNQUES SEISIE QUIZ DOWER, pleading. A plea by which a defendant denies
the right of a widow who sues for, and demands her dower in lands, &c., late
of her husband, because the husband was not, on the day of her marriage with
him, or any time afterwards, seised of such estate, so that she could be
endowed of the game. See 2 Saund. 329; 10 Went. 159; 3 Chitt. Pl. 598, and
the authorities there cited.
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WIDOWER
(bouvier) | WIDOWER. A man whose wife is dead. A widower has a right to administer to
his wife's separate estate, and as her administrator to collect debts due to
her, generally for his own use.
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WRIT OF DOWER
(bouvier) | WRIT OF DOWER, practice. A writ which lies for a widow claiming the specific
recovery of her dower, no part having been yet assigned to her. It is
usually called a writ of dower unde nihil habet. 3 Chit. Pl. 393; Booth,
166.
2. There is another species, called a writ of right of dower, which
applies to the particular case where the widow has received a part of her
dower from the tenant himself, and of land lying in the same town in which
she claims the residue. Booth, 166; Glanv. lib. 6, c. 4, 5. This latter writ
is seldom used in practice.
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