equitable dower

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• equitable dower — noun or equitable jointure : a provision made and accepted by a woman (not being an infant) before her marriage in lieu of dower that will generally be enforced in equity as a bar to dower …   Useful english dictionary

• equitable jointure — noun see equitable dower …   Useful english dictionary

• equitable jointure — The satisfaction of a wife s right to dower made by a settlement before marriage, enforceable in equity where it consists of a competent livelihood to take effect upon the husband s death and to continue at least for the life of the wife, and was …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• Jointure — is, in law, a provision for a wife after the death of her husband. As defined by Sir Edward Coke, it is a competent livelihood of freehold for the wife, of lands or tenements, to take effect presently in possession or profit after the death of… …   Wikipedia

• election — The act of choosing or selecting one or more from a greater number of persons, things, courses, or rights. The choice of an alternative. The internal, free, and spontaneous separation of one thing from another, without compulsion, consisting in… …   Black's law dictionary

• election — The act of choosing or selecting one or more from a greater number of persons, things, courses, or rights. The choice of an alternative. The internal, free, and spontaneous separation of one thing from another, without compulsion, consisting in… …   Black's law dictionary

• property law — Introduction       principles, policies, and rules by which disputes over property are to be resolved and by which property transactions may be structured. What distinguishes property law from other kinds of law is that property law deals with… …   Universalium

• History of English land law — Material here has been extracted from the 1911 Britannica encyclopedia. The history of English land law derives from a mixture of Roman, Norman and modern legislative sources.OutlineSuch terms as fee or homage carry us back into feudal times.… …   Wikipedia

• Tribunal militaire international pour l'Extrême-Orient — Le Tribunal militaire international pour l Extrême Orient TMIEO[1] (ou Tribunal de Tōkyō ou encore Tribunal militaire de Tōkyō), fut créé le 19 janvier 1946 pour juger les grands criminels de guerre japonais de la Seconde Guerre mondiale …   Wikipédia en Français

• estate — es·tate /i stāt/ n [Anglo French estat, literally, state, condition, from Old French, from Latin status, from stare to stand] 1: the interest of a particular degree, nature, quality, or extent that one has in land or other property compare fee;… …   Law dictionary

• Property — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Property >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 property property possession suum cuique meum et tuum GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 ownership ownership proprietorship lordship Sgm: N 2 seignority seignority …   English dictionary for students