Definition of Endowment
Transfer, generally as a gift, of money or property to an institution for a particular purpose such as a gift to a hospital for medical research. The act of settling a fund, or permanent pecuniary provision, for the maintenance of a public institution, charity, college, etc.
The assignment of dower; the setting off a woman’s dower. 2 Bl.Comm. 135.
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