dotation
Noun

dotation

  1. The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.
  2. Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation.
    As to eleemosynary corporations, by the dotation the founder and his heirs are of common right the legal visitors […]



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