Legal Definition and Related Resources of Admeasurement of dower

A remedy which lay for the heir, on reaching his majority, to rectify an assignment of dower made during his minority, by which the doweress had received more than she was legally entitled to. 2 Bl. Comm. 136; Gilb. Uses, 379. The remedy is still subsisting, though of rare occurrence. See 1 Washb. Real Prop. 225, 226; 1 Pick. (Mass.) 314; 2 Ind. 336. In some of the states, the special proceeding which is given by statute to enable the widow to compel an assignment of dower is termed an “admeasurement of dower.”

What does Admeasurement of dower mean in American Law?

The definition of Admeasurement of dower in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:

The process of admeasurement applied to ascertaining a widow’s dower, and also the name of a writ commanding the process. An older writ gave the same name to a writ by an heir against a widow, by which the heir claimed that she had been assigned too much as dower. The Latin name of that writ was “de admensuratione

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