Inchoate dower
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A wife's interest in the lands of her husband during his life, which may become a right of dower npdn his death Guerin v. Moore, 25 Minn. 465; Dingman v. Dingman, 39 Ohio St. 178; Smith v. Shaw, 150 Mass. 297, 22 N. E. 924.