Dower

Tliat portion of a man's lands which upon his death, — usually, as by the lands of which he was seised as of an time during the marriage, where the the common issue might have inherited, not been released. The estate or interest estate in dower.

In English law

Dower by custom: a custom, where the quantity allowed the portion of the common law.

In old English law

Dower ad ostium door or porch, — a kind of dower where simple, of full age, openly at the church were formerly celebrated, endowed his lands, or such quantity as he pleased, the same. Dower de la'pluis beale: a species of dower, incident to the old guardian in chivalry, and the wife Double costs: the ordinary portion of that amount or subsequent insurance risk in favor of the same plea: a plea vphich contains Double possibility: a quarrel: v. Duplex querela. person vouched of a third waste which consists in cutting timber to repair it sur done grant et render, the fine sur cognizance concessit. Double voucher: voucher by a party who had double the ordinary valor maritagii. Doudistinguished from a single whereof; out of which. apprehend, is endowed, or who has a his widow takes for life common law, one-thh-d of any estate of inheritance at any husband's estate was such that and the right of dower has of the widow is called an kind of dower regulated by wife differed from the proecclesise: dower at the church a man, being tenant in feedoor, where all marriages wife with the whole of his specifying and ascertaining dower of the fairest [part], — tenures, where there was a occupied lands of the heir as band's father was alive, and the son, by his consent, endowed his wife with a parcel of his father's lands, v. Unde, etc.