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INCHOATE DOWER RIGHT [1 record]

Record 1 2013-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

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 released her interest. (Ballentine, 3rd ed., 1969, p. 599).

Key term(s)
  • inchoate right to dower

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

droit de douaire virtuel : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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