dowableadj.
/ˈdaʊəbl/, U.S. /ˈdaʊəb(ə)l/ Law.
Capable of being endowed; entitled to dower.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [adjective] > widowed > having share of husband's property > entitled to
dowable1535
dowageable1655
1292 Britton v. i. §5 Femmes dowables des terres et des tenementz.]
1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 10. §7 Her husbandes tenementes or hereditamentes, whereof she was before dowable.
1613 H. Finch Law (1636) 36 If the heire indow the ancestors wife, though she were not dowable, yet she shall hold in dower.
1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. viii. 131 A seisin in law of the husband will be as effectual as a seisin in deed, in order to render the wife dowable.
1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xviii. 131 Is my wife dowable of any part of it?
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