- inchoate right
- A rudimentary interest.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
inchoate right
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inchoate right — In patent law, the right of an inventor to his invention while his application is pending which matures as property when the patent issues. Mullins Mfg. Co. v. Booth, C.C.A.Mich., 125 F.2d 660, 664 … Black's law dictionary
inchoate right — In patent law, the right of an inventor to his invention while his application is pending which matures as property when the patent issues. Mullins Mfg. Co. v. Booth, C.C.A.Mich., 125 F.2d 660, 664 … Black'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
inchoate — in·cho·ate /in kō ət, iŋ kō ˌāt/ adj 1 a: not yet made complete, certain, or specific: not perfected see also inchoate lien at lien b: not yet transformed into actual use or possession until an emplo … Law dictionary
right — / rīt/ n [Old English riht, from riht righteous] 1 a: qualities (as adherence to duty or obedience to lawful authority) that together constitute the ideal of moral propriety or merit moral approval b: something that is morally just able to… … 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 dower — See inchoate right of dower … Ballentine'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
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 — 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
