dowable (dow-[schwa]-b[schwa]l), adj. 1. Capable of being endowed (the widow received the dowable estate). [Cases: Dower and Curtesy 10. C.J.S. Dower §§ 10, 12–17, 140.] 2. Capable of receiving dower ( the woman was dowable of the estate). [Cases: Dower and Curtesy 21. C.J.S. Dower § 7.]
ne unques seise que dower (nee [schwa]ng-kweez see-zee k[schwa] dow-[ schwa]r), n. [Law French “never seised of a dowable estate”] Hist. In a dower action, the tenant’s general denial (plea of general issue) that the widow’s husband was never seised of a dowable estate of inheritance.
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