{"id":1846,"date":"2011-11-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/02\/dower-versus-dowry-2"},"modified":"2011-11-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T12:00:00","slug":"dower-versus-dowry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/02\/dower-versus-dowry-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dower versus Dowry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Generally speaking…<\/p>\n

“Dower” is the interest a wife has in her husband’s real or personal property. Depending upon the time period and location, it may be a 1\/3 interest, a life estate, etc.<\/p>\n

A “dowry” is the money\/goods, etc. that a woman brings into a marriage.<\/p>\n

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Generally speaking… “Dower” is the interest a wife has in her husband’s real or personal property. Depending upon the time period and location, it may be a 1\/3 interest, a life estate, etc. A “dowry” is the money\/goods, etc. that a woman brings into a marriage. ———————————— Check out GenealogyBank’s Offer for Tip of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}