inchoate dower
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inchoate dower — A wife s interest in the lands of her husband during his life, which may become a right of dower upon his death. A contingent claim or possibility of acquiring dower by outliving husband and arises, not out of contract, but as an institution of… … Black's law dictionary
inchoate dower — A wife s interest in the lands of her husband during his life, which may become a right of dower upon his death. A contingent claim or possibility of acquiring dower by outliving husband and arises, not out of contract, but as an institution of… … Black's law dictionary
dower — The provision which the law makes for a widow out of the lands or tenements of her husband, for her support and the nurture of her children. 2 Bl.Comm. 130; In re Miller s Estate, 44 N.M. 214, 100 P.2d 908, 911. A species of life estate which a… … Black's law dictionary
dower — The provision which the law makes for a widow out of the lands or tenements of her husband, for her support and the nurture of her children. 2 Bl.Comm. 130; In re Miller s Estate, 44 N.M. 214, 100 P.2d 908, 911. A species of life estate which a… … Black's law dictionary
dower — dow·er / dau̇ ər/ n [Anglo French, from Old French douaire, modification of Medieval Latin dotarium, from Latin dot dos gift, dowry]: the life estate in a man s real property to which his wife is entitled upon his death under common law and some… … Law dictionary
dower — The legal right or interest which the wife acquires by marriage in the real estate of her husband. At common law it consists in the use, during her natural life after the death of her husband, of one third of all the real estate of which her… … Ballentine's law dictionary
inchoate curtesy — A term variously defined as the right of the husband akin to the inchoate right of dower of the wife; the right of the husband in a jurisdiction in which the husband s right of curtesy is by statute the same as the right of dower, such right… … Ballentine's law dictionary
inchoate right of dower — The right, or expectation of a future right, that a wife has in real estate, of which her husband has become seized, while he is still living, such right becoming consummate as her dower if he dies leaving her surviving and she has not previously … Ballentine's law dictionary
release of dower — The extinguishment of a wife s inchoate right of dower by due execution of a formal release as part of the spouse s deed of conveyance or encumbrance, or through a joint conveyance by husband and wife, duly executed and acknowledged. 25 Am J2d… … Ballentine's law dictionary
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