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dowable, a. Law.|ˈdaʊəb(ə)l|
[a. AF. dowable, f. F. douer to portion, dow v.2]
Capable of being endowed; entitled to dower.
[1292Britton v. i. §5 Femmes dowables des terres et des tenementz.] 1535Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. 10. §7 Her husbandes tenementes or hereditamentes, whereof she was before dowable. 1613Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 36 If the heire indow the ancestors wife, though she were not dowable, yet she shall hold in dower. 1767Blackstone Comm. 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. 1858Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xviii. 131 Is my wife dowable of any part of it? |