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Widow's Estate

Widow's Estate, is the result of the sastric law codified through judicial precedents. Thus the 'women's estate' in its larger connotation means: 'All property which has given to a woman by any means and from any...

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 equally with next of kin to administration of her deceased husband's estate subject...

Tail

Tail [fr. tailler, Fr., to prune]. An estate-tail was formerly a freehold of inheritance and is now an equitable interest which may be created after 1925 in respect of personalty as well as realty by way...

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Gavelkind

Gavelkind. A mode or rule of descent by custom abolished by the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 45(1)(a), in the case of all deaths after 1925 except in regard to entailed estates, and descent from...

Quarantine, or Quarentaine

Quarantine, or Quarentaine. 1. By Magna Carta, the widow shall not be distrained to marry afresh, if she choose to live without a husband, but she shall not, however, marry against the consent of the Lord;...

Acknowledgement of a wife's assurance

Acknowledgement of a wife's assurance. If, before 1st January, 1925 [see (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 167], a woman married before 1883 disposed of her estate or interest in lands or her revisionary interest...

Herself

An emphasized form of the third person feminine pronoun used as a subject with she as she herself will bear the blame also used alone in the predicate either in the nominative or objective case as...

Iddat period

Iddat period, means in the case of a divorced woman,-- (i) three menstrual courses after the date of divorce, if she is subject to menstruation; and (ii) three lunar months after her divorce, if she is...

Infanticide

Infanticide, means (1) The act of killing a newborn child, esp. by the parents or with their consent, in archaic usage, the word referred also to the killing of an unborn child. Also termed child destruction;...

Dum casta vixerit

Dum casta vixerit (so long as she shall live chaste). In deeds of separation of husband and wife, it is not uncommonly provided that the allowance thereby insured by the husband to the wife shall continue...

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