Dote Assignanda
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A writ which lay fora widow, when it was judicially ascertained that a tenant to the king was seised of tenemerits in fee or fee-tail at the day of his death, und that he held of the king inchief. Insuch casethe widow might come into chancery, and then make oath that she would not marry without the king’s leave, and then she might have this writ. These widows were called the “king’s widows.” Jacob; Holthouse.