Dower vs Maintenance - What's the difference?
dower | maintenance |
(legal) The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.
(legal) Property given by a groom directly to his bride at or before their wedding in order to legitimize the marriage.
* 1610 , , act 3 scene 1
(obsolete) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
* Sir J. Davies
* Wordsworth
Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service
(legal) A tort committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.
(legal) (UK English) Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
In lang=en terms the difference between dower and maintenance
is that dower is property given by a groom directly to his bride at or before their wedding in order to legitimize the marriage while maintenance is (UK English) Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.As a verb dower
is to give a dower or dowry.dower
English
Noun
(en noun)- How great, how plentiful, how rich a dower !
- Man in his primeval dower arrayed.
