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Verb
/ˈdou(-ə)r/,
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dowers, plural;
  1. Give a dowry to

Noun
  1. A widow's share for life of her husband's estate

  2. A dowry

  1. dowry: money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
  2. endow: furnish with an endowment; "When she got married, she got dowered"
  3. a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband
  4. (dowered) supplied with a dower or dowry
  5. Dower or morning gift (Latin doarium, or Latinized Germanic morganaticum; Fr. douaire, German Morgengabe [Morgen, "morning," + Gabe, "gift"]) was a provision accorded by law to a wife for her support in the event that she should survive her husband (i.e., become a widow). ...
  6. The rights of a widow in the property of her husband at his death.
  7. The common law interest of a wife in estate of deceased husband.
  8. The rights of a widow or child to part of a deceased husband's or fathers property.
  9. The wife’s common law right to inherit from her husband.
  10. a right which a wife has in her husband's property effective at the time of his death.
  11. the part of interest of a deceased man's real estate alloted by law to his widow
  12. The right of a widow to one third of her late husband’s estate
  13. legal provision of real estate and support made to the widow for her lifetime from a husband's estate.
  14. A common law entitlement of a wife to a portion on her husband’s estate on his death. This common law right has been extinguished and is replaced by certain provisions of the Estate Administration Act and the Wills Variation Act, both of which grant a spouse certain rights on the death of the ...
  15. English statute of 1290 that abolished subinfudation
  16. That part of a man’s real property, which his widow is entitled to use for her lifetime after her husband’s death, as a result of her status as wife, as opposed to property devised or inherited.
  17. One-third share acquired by marriage of a husbands estate for natural life.
  18. the legal right of a wife to use or own some portion of her husband's real estate, should she survive him
  19. A legal right that a woman has in the event of her husband's death that entitles her to one-third of the property her husband acquired during their marriage regardless of what his will stipulates
  20. Interest in a part of her dead husband's estate allotted by English Common Law to the wife for use in her lifetime. ...
  21. This term refers to the legal claim of a widow to the lands and tenements of her husband, after his death, for the support of her and her children. Typically, the claim was one-third in actual or real value of the properties. ...
  22. A surviving wife’s right in common law states to use property, usually one-third of the real property, of her deceased husband for the rest of her life.  Dower and curtesy have been abolished in Washington.  RCW 11.04.060  Contrast: CURTESY.
  23. The interest of a widow in the freehold lands of her deceased husband held by him at anytime during coverture in fee simple or fee tail. This interest was one-third for life but, in gavelkind, one-half until remarriage, and attached to the land, notwithstanding any sale or devise by the husband. ...
  24. The rights of a spouse to the property of their deceased spouse
  25. An estate for life, which the law gives the widow in the third part of the lands and tenements, or hereditaments of which the hushand, was solely seised, at any time during the coverture, of an estate in fee or in tail, in possession, and to which estate in the lands and tenements, the issue, if ...