NE UNQUES SEISE QUE DOWER

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.