 A widow shall be endowed of the third part of all the lands whereof her husband was seized of an estate of inheritance at any time during the marriage, unless she shall have lawfully released her right thereto.  New Light on Mormonism - Page 159by Ellen E. Dickinson - 1885 - 272 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 722 pages
...note 1.) By reference to the Revised Statutes of this State we find the dower right thus declared : " A widow shall be endowed of the third part of all the lands whereof her husband was seised of an estate of inheritance at any time during the marriage." There is no qualification or condition... | |
 | Abraham Lansing - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 604 pages
...By the Revised Statutes (3d vol., oth ed., p. 31, ยง 1), a widow is entitled, as dower, to one-third part of all the lands whereof her husband was seized...estate of inheritance at any time during the marriage. The interest which the purchaser of land acquires by his contract is an equitable interest only, and... | |
 | Calvin Townsend - Commercial law - 1871 - 620 pages
...lifetime of his wife. In that case she is at common law entitled to be endowed, for her natural life, of the third part of all the lands whereof her husband was seized, either in deed or in law, at any time during the coverture, and of which any issue that she might have... | |
 | Rhode Island - Law - 1872 - 796 pages
...part of all the lands, tenements, and hereditaments, whereof her husband, or any other to his use, was seized of an estate of inheritance, at any time during the intermarriage, to which she shall not have relinquished her right of dower by deed, except in the cases... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Women - 1878 - 790 pages
...life-time of his wife. In that case she is at common law entitled to he endowed, for her natural life, of the third part of all the lands whereof her husband was seised, either in deed or in law, at any time during the coverture, and of which any issue that she... | |
 | Charles R. Brown - History - 1874 - 176 pages
...widow of every deceased person is entitled to dower, or the use, during her natural life, of one-third part of all the lands whereof her husband was seized...estate of inheritance, at any time during the marriage, unless she has conveyed the same away, or unless she has entered into an agreement to accept a certain... | |
 | Charles R. Brown - Michigan - 1874 - 214 pages
...widow of every deceased person is entitled to dower, or the use, during her natural life, of one-third part of all the lands whereof her husband was seized...estate of inheritance, at any time during the marriage, unless she has conveyed the same away, or unless she has entered into an agreement to accept a certain... | |
 | Charles R. Brown - History - 1874 - 162 pages
...widow of every deceased person is entitled to dower, or the use, during her natural life, of one-third part of all the lands whereof her husband was seized...estate of inheritance, at any time during the marriage, unless she has conveyed the same away, or unless she has entered into an agreement to accept a certain... | |
 | John Proffatt - Women - 1874 - 156 pages
...lifetime of his wife. In that case she is at common law entitled to be endowed for her natural life of the third part of all the lands whereof her husband was seized, either in deed or in law at any time during the coverture, and of which any issue that she might have... | |
 | Illinois - Law - 1874 - 1270 pages
...husband or wife shall be endowed of the third part of all the lauds whereof the deceased husband or wife n or pay from any public fund whatever, anything in aid of any church or unless the same shall have been relinquished in legal form. Equitable estates shall be subject to such... | |
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