 | Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, Thomas Coventry - Land tenure - 1830 - 716 pages
...wife after the decease of her husband shall be endowed of the third part of such lands and tenement x as were her husband's at any time during the coverture,...the same wife in severally by metes and bounds for term of her life, whether she had issue by her husbatid or no, and of what age soever the wife be ;... | |
 | Sir Thomas Littleton - Land tenure - 1841 - 794 pages
...after the decease of her husband shall be endowed of the third part of such lands or tenements that were her husband's at any time during the coverture, to have and to hold to the same wife in severaltv, by metes and bounds (b), for term of her life, whether 36 Tenaunt en dower est lou home... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 532 pages
...wife, and dieth, the wife after the decease of her husband shall be endowed of the third part of such lands and tenements as were her husband's at any time...coverture, to have and to hold to the same wife in severalty, by metes and bounds for term of her life, whether she hath issue by her husband or no, and... | |
 | James Lord - Conveyancing - 1844 - 306 pages
...and dieth, the wife, after the decease of her husband, shall be endowed, of the third part of such lands and tenements as were her husband's at any time...the same wife in severally by metes and bounds for * This species of dower, with that ex assensu patris, is now abolished by 3 & 4 Win. IV., c. 105, s.... | |
 | George Spence - Civil procedure - 1846 - 708 pages
...; the wife after the death of the husband becomes entitled to be endowed of the third part of such lands and tenements as were her husband's at any time during the coverture, to hold to the wife in severally, by metes and bounds, for term of her life, whether she has issue by... | |
 | Sir Thomas Littleton - Land tenure - 1846 - 276 pages
...and dieth ; the wife, after the decease of her husband, shall he endowed of the third part of such lands and tenements as were her husband's at any time during the coverture, [unless the husband have absolutely disposed of the same in his lifetime, or by his will, or have expressly... | |
 | John Edward Bright - Husband and wife - 1849 - 650 pages
...dower conditionally. (/) 27. It is stated by Littleton, that the widow is intitled to dower of such lands and tenements as were her husband's at any time during the coverture. However, where the expectant upon an estate of freehold, (b) Perk. sect. 373 : 1 Bro. Abr. the tenant... | |
 | Sir Edward Coke, Francis Hargrave - Land tenure - 1853 - 882 pages
...dieth, the wife after the decease of her husband shall be endowed of the third part of such land« and tenements as were her husband's at any time during...the same wife in severally by metes and bounds for terme of her life, whether she hath issue by her husband or no, and of what age soever the wife be,... | |
 | Humphry William Woolrych - Water - 1853 - 448 pages
...wife and dies, the wife, after the decease of her husband, shall be endowed of the third part of such lands and tenements as were her husband's at any time during the coverture, &c.(e) Hence the ownership of the soil in the husband used to be necessary to support a claim of dower.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Littleton - Land tenure - 1854 - 180 pages
...during the coverture [if their issue could inherit the same lands,, as heir to the husband, Sect. 53], to have and to hold to the same wife in severally, by metes and bounds [Sect. 44], for term of her life, whether she hath issue by her husband or no, and of what age soever... | |
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Tenant in dower is. where a man is seised of certain lands or tenements in fee simple, fee tail general, or as heir in special tail, and taketh a wife, and dieth, the wife after the decease of her husband shall be endowed of the third part of such lands... 
