dower 的 2 个定义
- Law. the portion of a deceased husband's real property allowed to his widow for her lifetime.
- dowry.
- a natural gift or endowment.
dower 近义词
natural gift
endow
更多dower例句
- Neither is very old (Christmann is in his early 40s and Dower in his 30s), but Hjartarson is in no hurry.
- War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower.
- Looking at the change from the vantage of peace, historian John Dower speaks for me when he says: “This war was madness.”
- In most states this interest or dower is paramount to the claims of her husband's creditors.
- When her dower is in mortgaged land, she cannot get possession until the mortgage has been paid.
- In other words she loses her dower whenever her husband has no estate from which her dower can be carved out.
- Whenever a marriage can be set aside for some illegality, and is not, it will sustain her dower on his death.
- If eager to get the most possible, she would reject the gift of money and claim her dower rights.