{"id":6107,"date":"2017-11-01T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=6107"},"modified":"2017-11-01T20:35:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T20:35:00","slug":"writ-of-dower-to-assign-dower-inheritance-of-13-of-husbands-land-upon-his-death","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=6107","title":{"rendered":"Writ of Dower &#8211; to assign dower (inheritance of 1\/3 of husband&#8217;s land upon his death)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Writ of Dower<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>\u201c<\/strong>(16c.)<strong> A writ for the assignment of dower<\/strong>; DE DOTE UNDE NIHIL,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">HABET. Cf. WRIT OF RIGHT OF DOWER.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Definition of Dower<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>\u201c<\/strong>(14c.) <strong>At common law, a wife\u2019s right, upon her husband\u2019s death, to a\u00a0<\/strong><strong>life estate in one-third of the land that he owned in fee. With few exceptions, the\u00a0<\/strong><strong>wife could not be deprived of dower by any transfer made by her husband during\u00a0<\/strong><strong>his lifetime. Although most states have abolished dower, many states retaining\u00a0<\/strong><strong>the concept have expanded the wife\u2019s share to a life estate in all the land that her\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>husband owned in fee.<\/strong> \u2013 Also termed dowment; maritagium. Cf. CURTESY.<strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writ of Dower: \u201c(16c.) A writ for the assignment of dower; DE DOTE UNDE NIHIL, HABET. Cf. WRIT OF RIGHT OF DOWER.\u201d Definition of Dower: \u201c(14c.) At common law, a wife\u2019s right, upon her husband\u2019s death, to a\u00a0life estate in one-third of the land that he owned in fee. With few exceptions, the\u00a0wife could not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=6107\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writ of Dower &#8211; to assign dower (inheritance of 1\/3 of husband&#8217;s land upon his death)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6074,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6107","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6108,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6107\/revisions\/6108"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}