EX ASSENSU PATRIS

ex assensu patris (eks [schwa]-sen-s[y]oo pay-tris). [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. • This type of dower was abolished in England by the Dower […]