 | Charles Sweet - Law - 1882 - 946 pages
...than as joint tenant),8 and lawdied leaving a widow, she was entitled to hold the third part of such lands and tenements as were her husband's at any time during the coverture, as tenant in dower for the term of her life,8 and notwithstanding that the husband might have sold,... | |
 | Stewart Rapalje, Robert Linn Lawrence - Law - 1883 - 770 pages
...joint tenant (Litt. ยง 45), and died leaving a widow, she was entitled to hold the third part of such lands and tenements as were her husband's at any time during the coverture, as tenant in dower for the term of her life (Id. ? 30), and this notwithstanding that the husband might... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 956 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...the same wife in severally by metes and bounds for term of her life, whether she hath issue by her husband or no, and of what age soever the wife be,... | |
 | John Chipman Gray - Personal property - 1888 - 936 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...the same wife in severally by metes and bounds for term of her life, whether she hath issue by her husband or no, and of what age soever the wife be,... | |
 | Stewart Rapalje, Robert Linn Lawrence - Law - 1888 - 772 pages
...joint tenant (Litt. g 45), and died leaving a widow, she was entitled to hold the third part of such lands and tenements as were her husband's at any time during the coverture, as tenant in dower for the term of her life (Id. \ 36), and this notwithstanding that the husband might... | |
 | William Pinder Eversley - Domestic relations - 1896 - 1172 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...coverture, to have and to hold to the same wife in severalty by motes and bounds for term of her life."3 " Dower, in the common law, is taken for that... | |
 | George Washington Kirchwey - Real property - 1900 - 596 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 terme of her life, whether she hath issue by her husband or no, and... | |
 | George William Warvelle - Real property - 1902 - 684 pages
...wife, and dieth; the wife, after the decease of her husband, shall be endowed of a third part of such lands and tenements as were her husband's at any time during the coverture; to have and to hold the same to the wife in severally, by metes and bounds, for term of her life; whether she hath issue... | |
 | Sir Thomas Littleton - Land tenure - 1903 - 446 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,... | |
 | Selden Society - Court records - 1911 - 546 pages
...shall be endowed of the third part of such lands and tenements as were her husband's at any time duriug the coverture, to have and to hold to the same wife in severally by metes and bounds for term of her life, whether she hath issue by her husband or no ' (' Littleton on Tenures ' [Coke's translation],... | |
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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... 
