 | 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 - 1888 - 776 páginas
...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 an estate of inheritance, at any time during the marriage, unless she is lawfully barred thereof;" and this Court has said that a widow may bring... | |
 | Delos White Beadle - 1852 - 366 páginas
...devised and bequeathed by her a's if she were unmarried." DOWER. — The wife is entitled to dower in all lands of which, her husband was seized of an estate of inheritance during coverture. Rate of Interest. THE legal rate is seven per cent., with permission to agree upon... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1853 - 594 páginas
...action. The statute declares that the 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. (Title 3, of chap. 1, of Part 3, of the RS § 1.) By the 16th section of the same act... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (7th Circuit), John McLean - 1856 - 686 páginas
...be entitled to dower, or the use during her natural life, of onethird part of all the lands whereof her husband was seized of an estate of inheritance at any time during the marriage, unless she is lawfully barred thereof" — and by Phillis Johnston v. James A. Vandyke.... | |
 | Frederick Gerhard - 1857 - 474 páginas
...widow, as her exclusive estate for ever. A widow is endowed of a third part of all the lands whereof her husband was seized of an estate of inheritance at any time during the marriage. Every devise of land bars her dower, unless otherwise expressed in the will, but she... | |
 | Frederick Gerhard - 1857 - 466 páginas
...widow, as her exclusive estate for ever. A widow is endowed of a third part of all the lands whereof her husband was seized of an estate of inheritance at any time during the marriage. Every devise of land bars her dower, unless otherwise expressed in^the will, but she... | |
 | David Price Belknap - 1860 - 778 páginas
...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 an estate of inheritance, at any time during the marriage, unless she is lawfully barred thereof. 2. The widow shall be entitled tp dower out of... | |
 | Delos White Beadle - 1860 - 368 páginas
...of Married Women. DOWER. — A widow shall be endowed of the third part of all the lands whereof he? husband was seized of an estate of inheritance at any time during marriage, unless Ui« same shall have been relinquished in legal form. Rate of Interest THE rate of interest... | |
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott - 1864 - 812 páginas
...PROPERTY. 4. Estate of inheritance. A widow shall be endowed of a third part of all the lands whereof her husband was seized of an estate of inheritance, at any time during the marriage. 1 Ben. Stat., 740, $ 1. Substantially same provision in 1 Ra>. L. qf 1813, 66, § 1.... | |
 | Charles Harvey Scribner - 1867 - 860 páginas
...was at liberty to claim her dower, or a compensation for it, in all the freehold or customary estates of which her husband was seized of an estate of inheritance at his ker. 1 Swanst. 381, and note ; Anderson's Appeal, 36 Pa. St. (12 Casey), 470 ; Hall v. Hall, 2... | |
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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. 
