Dos rationabilis

A reasonable marriage portion. A reasonable part of her husband's estate, to which every widow is entitled, of lands of which her husband may have endowed her on the day of marriage. Co. Litt. 336. Dower, at common law. 2 Bl. Comm. 134.

Defined under Dos in Black's Law Dictionary.

A _ reasonable marriage portion, <A reasonable part of her husband's estate, to which every widow is entitled, of lands of which her husband may have endowed her on the day of marriage. Co. Litt. 336. Dower, at common law. 2 Bl, Comm. 184. Dos rationabilis vel legitima est cujuslibet mulieris de quocunque tenemento fertia pars omnium terrarum et tenementorum, que vir suus tenuit in dominio suo ut de feodo, ete. Co. Litt. 336. Reasonable or legitimate dower belongs to every woman of a third part of all the lands and tenements of which her hus- a band was seised in his demesne, as of fee, ete.

Lat.

In old English law. Reasonable dower. Rationabilis dos est eujuslibet mulieris de quoeungtie tenemento, tertiapars omnium terrarum et tenementorum, quas vir auus tenuit in daminico euo, et ita in feodo, quod earn inde dotare poterit die quo earn desponeavit. Reasonable dower is [the right] of every married woman, out of every kind of tenement, [being] the third part of all the lands and tenements which her husband held in his demesne and in fee, so that he might endow her thereof on the day he married her. Bract, fol. 92. This passage is quoted by Lord Coke. Co. Litt. 33 b. This kind of dower was otherwise called dower by the common law. 2 BL Com. 134.