Dowment
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Fr.
Endowment
A word used by Littleton in nearly the sense of dower. Dower que est appelle dowment ad ostium ecclesice, et dower appelle dowment, <fec.; dower which is called dowment at the church door, and dower called dowment, &c. Litt. sect.
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