| 词汇 | dower |
| 释义 | dower noun[ C ] uk /daʊər/ us /daʊɚ/ a share of a man's money and property that belongs to his widow(= wife) after he dies: （寡妇获得的）亡夫遗产 dower house She had to leave the Manor and take up residence in the dower house.她不得不离开大宅子，住到留给她的寡妇小屋去。 old use an old word for a dowry（dowry旧时的拼法） Inheriting & bequeathing assign beneficiary bequeath bequest cadger co-executor heir heir apparent heiress heirless heirloom inherit inheritance legacy patrimony pond life pond scum primogeniture probate settle You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Weddings Examples of dowerdower Opposed to this, one finds elements without any space, dowered with very enigmatic presences. Consequently, properties comprising the dower needed a separate royal charter to be permanently granted to the nunnery. The dower was either extracted before the division of property or not listed as part of the marital assets. In other manors the procedure was followed with regard to all land surrenders by married men because of the widow's rights to dower or freebench. There were, too, some new titles of significance, such as unfaithfulness in marriage and right of dower. He acquired a secondary residence built on former manorial property, to provide the family with a dower house. He also informed the court that he had given her a dower consisting of three villages. There was no clear right of widow's dower. In the seventeenth century the size of the dower on an ordinary farm was not considerable. If, however, the husband had borrowed money to provide his wife with a dower she could be liable for the payment of these debts. The apparent importance of dower rights directs attention at instruments in which a woman is one of the signatories as opposed to being the only signatory. The latter entries probably reflect the preference of buyers and lenders to see the wife identified in the transaction to prevent some future contest on the basis of dower rights. In those countries silver is largely held as the woman's dower and is not readily available in the form of purchasing power. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is the possibility that unwittingly a dower house sett which is occupied may be stopped up. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Disarmament is the dower that is born from the soil of security, and if there is insecurity, disarmament dies, and there is no way at all of keeping it alive. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of dower These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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