Dos Rationabilis
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A _ reasonable marriage portion, <A reasonable part of her husband's estate, to which every widow is entitled, of lands of which her husband may have endowed her on the day of marriage.
Co. Litt. 336.
Dower, at common law.
2 Bl, Comm. 184.
Dos rationabilis vel legitima est cujuslibet mulieris de quocunque tenemento fertia pars omnium terrarum et tenementorum, que vir suus tenuit in dominio suo ut de feodo, ete.
Co. Litt. 336.
Reasonable or legitimate dower belongs to every woman of a third part of all the lands and tenements of which her hus- a band was seised in his demesne, as of fee, ete.