Examples of using Dower in English and their translations into Portuguese
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Usually, the wife was free from kin limitations to use(and bequeath) her dower to whatever and whomever she pleased.
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Dower wasn't the same as bride price;
for example, by the Dower Act 1834.
it may be called dower.
borrow to get your dower money.
bride price, and dower.
A dower at common law was not liable for the husband's debts- which became controversial after many tried to use it to shield their property from the collection of debts.
being accorded by law, dower differs essentially from a conventional marriage portion such as the English dowry cf. Roman dos,
David William"Dai" Dower MBE(20 June 1933- 1 August 2016),
The husband was legally prevented from using the wife's dower- as contrasted with her dowry,
soon became rich enough to pay the dower of a local girl
Strictly dower was only available from land that her husband owned,
Philip IV did not like each other, and the French King drove a hard bargain over the size of Isabella's dower and the details of the administration of Edward's lands in France.
But the word dower has been used since Chaucer(The Clerk's Tale) in the sense of dowry, and is recognized as a definition of dower in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Dower is mentioned in an ordinance of King Philip Augustus of France(1214),
In the few jurisdictions where it still remains, dower has been heavily modified by statute,
Dower is an outcome of the ecclesiastical practice of exacting from the husband at marriage a promise to endow his wife,
It was the law of dower unimpaired by statute,
There is judicial authority of the year 1310 for the proposition that dower was favoured by law,