Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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dower ex assensu patris
n. [Law Latin "dower by the father's assent"] Hist. A type of dower ad ostium ecclesiae made while the husband's father is alive and consents to the endowment to his son's wife.
ex assensu patris
[Latin "by or with the consent of the father"] Hist. A species of dower ad ostium ecclesiae, under which a husband, by his father's express consent, would endow his wife with a parcel of the father's lands. 0 This type of dower was abolished in England by the Dower Act (1833). St. 3 & 4 Will. 4, ch. 105, ยง 13.