Dote Assignando

English Law: Dote Assignando in the Past

The name of a writ which lay in favor of a widow, when it was found by office that the king’s tenant (see more about this popular legal topic in the U.K. encyclopedia) was seised of tenements in fee or fee tail at the time of his death and that he held of the king in chief. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”]

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1. Partialy, this information about dote assignando is based on the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, 1848 edition. There is a list of terms of the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, including dote assignando.

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