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INCHOATE RIGHT DOWER [5 records]

Record 1 2013-02-19

English

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

A rudimentary interest. (Ballentine’s, 3rd ed., 1969, p. 599).

CONT

Common law dower was merely an inchoate right dependent upon the wife surviving her husband.(Di Castri, "Registration of Title to Land", 1987, p. 301).

French

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

droit 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).

PHR

Droit de propriété familiale imparfait

Spanish

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Record 2 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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Record 3 2012-12-05

English

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

At common law, whenever a husband became seised(otherwise than as a joint tenant) of an estate of inheritance during coverture which issue of the marriage, if any, could inherit, the wife obtained an inchoate right of dower therein which became consummate on the husband's death survived by his wife. The dower right was a life interest in one-third of such freeholds of inheritance and constituted a clog on the husband's title even in his life-time.(Laskin, Revised Edition 1964, p. 72).

CONT

The right of dower was twofold : namely, inchoate and consummate.(Mendes da Costa and Balfour, p. 730)

French

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

Dans certains textes législatifs, le pluriel («dower rights») est défini de sorte qu'il désigne l'ensemble des droits d'un conjoint sur les biens de l'autre conjoint : voir, par exemple, R.S.A. 1980, c. D-38.

OBS

droit de douaire : 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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Record 4 2012-12-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Estates (common law)
DEF

Dower at common law was the right of a wife on surviving her husband to an estate for her life in one-third of the freehold estates of inheritance of which her deceased husband was solely seised at any time during the marriage and which her issue by him might possibly have inherited. (Anger and Honsberger, 2nd, p. 175).

CONT

The legal right or interest... that a wife acquires in the property her husband held or acquired anytime during their marriage. During the husband's life, the dower is an expectant, or inchoate, interest which does not actually become a legal estate(called consummate dower) until the husband's death.(Reilly, 2nd, p. 146).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

douaire : 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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Record 5 2012-11-19

English

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

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 attaching the moment the wife becomes seized in fee simple during coverture; the doctrine that on the birth of issue, even though the husband has no greater interest in the wife's property during her life because of the "Married Woman's(sic) Act", he nevertheless has a potential life estate in his wife's real property conditional on his surviving her.(Ballentine's, 3rd ed., 1969, p. 599).

French

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

bénéfice virtuel du veuf : 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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