Sentence examples for to dower from inspiring English sources

The right to dower could be barred by the wife before marriage accepting a jointure (a life estate in specified lands) in lieu of dower, or by the complicated uses to bar dower invented in the 18th century.

For homologous recombination 300 ng linear fragment was transformed by electroporation according to Dower (Dower et al. 1988) in 0.1 ml cuvettes containing 50 μl of ice-cold competent EL250 containing BAC RP23-192A7, using a Bio-Rad gene pulser set at 1,750 kV, 23 mF with a pulse controller set at 200 Ω.

The readers who were drawn to Mr. Dower's book by newspaper reviews, for example, were all struck by the fact that the reviews they read had not mentioned the more controversial aspects of the book.

As a small measure of compensation to widows, the act extended dower to equitable interests.

The castle was given to Henry V's widow, Catherine of Valois, in 1423 as part of her dower to support her financially.

She pleaded for an augmentation of her jointure with the authorities and, to reach a compromise with the late Earl's executors, threatened "by some froward advice" to claim her dower rights.

Born to well-connected parents who never had much money, Diana aged six, her twin Christine, her 18-month older sister Josephine and 12-year-old brother Denis moved to a former dower house the Oxfordshire village of Peppard near Henley-on-Thames in 1931.

The castle was returned to Eleanor's dower and as she predeceased her husband the lordship returned into royal hands.

Some of the lands, including Peveril, were made part of Eleanor of Castile's dower, to come into her possession should her husband, Prince Edward, die.

While the Chinese angrily take to the streets, the Japanese stay at home and watch it on TV.For a solution, Mr Dower looks to the 20th-century views of E.H. Norman, a Japan expert and Marxist historian.

It was once the dower house to Haddon Hall, and stands by the bridge in the middle of the village.