Define and distinguish between dower and curtesy

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Dower is the right of a life estate a wife had in her husband's estate upon his death. Dower ensured that a widowed woman had a roof over her head for the rest of her life. Curtesy was the husband's right to a life estate in his wife's individually owned real estate until his death.

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