Dower Ad Ostium Ecclesia
Defined in 1 dictionary — Black's (1891)
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Dower at the church door or porch. An ancient kind of dower in England, where a man, (being tenant in fee-simple, of full age,) openly at the church dour, where all marriages were formerly celebrated, after affiance made and troth plighted between them, e7dowed his wife with the whole of his lands, or such quantity as he pleased, at the same time specifying and ascertaining the same. Litt. 3 39; 2 Bl. Comm. 133.