Opposed to this, one finds elements without any space, dowered with very enigmatic presences.
Consequently, properties comprising the dower needed a separate royal charter to be permanently granted to the nunnery.
The dower was either extracted before the division of property or not listed as part of the marital assets.
In other manors the procedure was followed with regard to all land surrenders by married men because of the widow's rights to dower or freebench.
There were, too, some new titles of significance, such as unfaithfulness in marriage and right of dower.
He acquired a secondary residence built on former manorial property, to provide the family with a dower house.
He also informed the court that he had given her a dower consisting of three villages.
There was no clear right of widow's dower.
