Endowment

Now generally used of a permanent provision for any public • as a school or hospital. By the endowment of such institutions is commonly undei not the building or providing sites for them, but the providing of a fixed revenue for their support, -jr.

1...1. i'h. 82; '■> De «... M. & G. 87; state v. Lyon.::l: \. J. L 361.

But more technically, of the assigning dower to a woman, or the severing of lit portion for a vicar towards his perpetual maintenance.

1 Bla. Com. Steph. Com. 99; French v. Pratt, 27 Me. 381; state v. [^yon, 32 N..1. L. 360; Runkel v. Winemiller. 4 Hair. & McH. (Md.) 429, 1 Am. Dec 411.