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Dower ex assensu patris

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Dower by the father's assent. A species of dower ad ostium ecclesiæ, made when the husband's father was alive, and the son, by his consent expressly given, endowed hls wife with parcel of his father's lands.

Litt. § 40; 2 Bl. Comm. 133; Grogan v. Garrison, 27 Ohio St. 61.