- Dos rationabilis vel legitima est cujuslibet mulieris de quocunque tenemento tertia pars omnium terrarum et tenementorum, quae vir suns tenuit in dominio suo ut de feodo
- Reasonable or legitimate dower is for every woman a third part of all the lands and tenements which her husband held in his demesne as of fee.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.