Husband - Law Dictionary Search Results
Goman
A husband a master of a family
Jason
the husband of Medea and leader of the Argonauts who sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece
Feere
A consort husband or wife a companion a fere
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Levir
A husbands brother used in reference to levirate marriages
Widow
Widow, a woman whose husband is dead and who has not remarried, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1592. A widow is entitled
Married women's property
woman, by marrying, transferred the ownership of all her property, real and personal, present and future, to her husband absolutely, so that he might sell, pay his debts out of, give away, or dispose by will of
Curtesy of England
by favour of the law of England arises by act of law, and is that interest which a husband has for his life in his wife's fee-simple or fee-tail estates, generalor special, aftr her death. Tenancy by
Adultery
to the innocent party a divorce a mensa et thoro on the ground of the other's adultery, a husband could obtain a dissolution of his marriage (before that Act, only obtainable and not infrequently obtained by a
Dower
the right which a wife has in the third part of the lands and tenements of which her husband dies possessed in fee-simple, fee-tail general, or as heir in special tail, which she holds from and after
Stridhan
it or give it away at her own pleasure by gift or will without any reference to her husband. Ordinarily, the husband has no right or interest in it with the sole exception that in times of
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