Estate In Dower
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
See Dower.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A species of life-estate which a woman is, by law, entitled to cluim on the death of her husband, in the lands and tenements of which he was seised in fee during the marriage, and which her issue, if any, might by possibility have inherited. 1 Steph. Comm. 249; 2 Bl. Comm. 129; Cruise, Dig. tit. 6; 2 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 124, § 1117; 4 Kent, Comin. 55. See
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A species of life estate which a woman is, by law, entitled to claim on the death of her husband, in the lands and tenements of which he was seised in fee during the marriage, and which her issue, if any, might by possibility have inherited. 1 Steph. Com. 249. 2 Bl. Com. 129. Cruise Dig. tit. vi. 2 Crabb's Real Prop. 124, § 1117. 4 Kent's Com. 35. See Dower. In several of the United States, (Vermont, New-Hampshire, Connecticut, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia,) the title to dower has been reduced down to the lands whereof the husband died seised. 4 Kent's Com. 41. 1 Greenleaf's Cruise Dig. 166, note. 1 Hilliard's Real Prop. 126. In England, by the late Dower Act, 3 & 4 Will. IV. c. 105, seisin of the husband is not necessary. 2 Crabb's Real Prop. 130.