 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1872 - 752 pages
...consideration, provides that "the widow shall be endowed of the third part of all the lands whereof the husband was seized of an estate of inheritance at any time during the marriage," etc. Under the former statute, to sustain the right of dower, the husband must have had a strict legal... | |
 | Michigan - 1846 - 896 pages
...L.'¿?'(ifr$ ifl .Dowri-. SECTION 1. The widow of every deceased person, shall be entitled ¿‘¿i¿d to dower, or the use during her natural life, of one-third part of all 10 W¿-ud.. 4¿O. . mm do*t. ¿ Lau1¿,. the lands whereofhcr husband was seized ofan estate of inheritance,... | |
 | Vermont - 1851 - 838 pages
...hold lands of his wife, by the 9. Commissioners to he sworn—return to be recurtesy, Sec. SECTION 1. The widow of every deceased person shall be entitled...to dower, or the use, during her natural life, of one third of the real estate, of which her husband died seized in his own right, unless she shall be... | |
 | Delos White Beadle - 1851 - 370 pages
...amount of the net insurance in the same manner as in case of married \vomen. DOWER. — The widow of any deceased person shall be entitled to dower, or the use. during her natural life, of one third of the real estate of which her hiuband died seized in his own ri^ht, unless she shall be... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1894 - 778 pages
...entitled to dower in these lands, and the widow appeals. Our statute provides (How. Stat. § 5733) that— "The widow of every deceased person shall be entitled...one-third part of all the lands whereof her husband was seised of an estate of inheritance at any time during the marriage, unless she is lawfully barred thereof."... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1867 - 642 pages
...had already given the right to dower, not only in the lands of which the husband died seized, but " of all the lands whereof her husband was seized of...inheritance at any time during the marriage, unless PBATT ». TBFPT. she is lawfully barred thereof," — or, substantially, dower at common law. The first... | |
 | Delos White Beadle - 1852 - 366 pages
...amount of the net insurance in the same manner as in case of married women. DOWER. — The widow of any deceased person shall be entitled to dower, or the use, during her natural life, of one third of the real estate of which her husband died seized in his own right, unless she shall be... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1853 - 594 pages
...a necessary party to the action. The statute declares that the widow shall be endowed of the third part of all the lands whereof her husband was seized...estate of inheritance at any time during the marriage. (Title 3, of chap. 1, of Part 3, of the RS § 1.) By the 16th section of the same act it is declared... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1854 - 960 pages
...of the said Asa, to her dower in all the real estate whereof the said Asa, or any other to his use, was seized of an estate of inheritance at any time during the coverture, and became entitled as against the said ERV Wright to her dower in all the real estate of... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1856 - 886 pages
...be endowed of the third part of all the lands whereof her husband, or any other person to his use, was seized of an estate of inheritance, at any time during the marriage, to which she shall not have relinquished her right of dower, in the manner prescribed by law, to hold... | |
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The widow of every deceased person shall be entitled to dower or the use, during her natural life, of one-third part of all the lands whereof her husband was seized, of all estate of inheritance at any time 'during the marriage, unless she is lawfully... 
