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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 to the discretion of the Court [see In the Estate of Paine, A.J., (1916) 115 LT 935]In regard to deaths after 1925, by the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 46:-(1) The residuary (real and personal) estate of an intestate shall be distributed in the manner or be held on the trusts mentioned in this s., namely:-(i) If the intestate leaves a husband or wife (with or without issue) the surviving husband or wife shall take the personal chattels (q.v.) absolutely and in addition the residuary estate of the intestate shall stand charged with the payment of a net sum of 1000l. free of death duties and costs to the surviving husband or wife (with interest from date of death at 5 per cent. per annum until paid or appropriated and subject thereto as provided).(a) If the intestate lea...
King's widow
King's widow, a widow of the King's tenant-in-chief, who was obliged to take oath in Chancery that she would not marry without the King's leave....
Widow's Chamber
Widow's Chamber. In London the widow of a freeman was, by the custom of the city, entitled to her apparel and the furniture of her bed-chamber, but this custom was abolished by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 94....
Widow-Bench
Widow-Bench, the share of her husband's estate which a widow is allowed besides her jointure...
qualifying widow(er)
qualifying widow(er) The filing status used by a qualified person for the two years following a spouse's death. ...
Deceased wife's sister or deceased brother's widow
Deceased wife's sister or deceased brother's widow. See MARRIAGE (prohibited degrees)....
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 source whatsoever and includes both properties in which she has absolute estate stridhana and property in which she has only a limited interest and the term is used in the context only later sense of property in which she takes only a limited or qualified interest. Such property is ether property inherited by woman, or property which has been allotted to her in a partition in her husband's family, Atava Akkulamma v. Gajjela Papi Reddy, AIR 1995 SC 166....
Widow's Terce
Widow's Terce, the right for life which a wife has after her husband's death to a third of the rents of his heritable estate in Scotland; dower....
Widower
Widower, one whose wife is dead. A condition in restraint of the second marriage, whether of a man or a woman, is valid, Allen v. Jackson, (1875) 1 Ch D 399....
Dower
Dower [fr. dos, dotis, Lat., a marriage gift; dotare dower, Fr., endow, to furnish with a marriage portion. Dotarium, M. Lat., dotaire, Prov.; douaire, Fr.; a dowry of marriage provision; douairiere, a widow in possession of her portion, a dowager], 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 his decease, in severalty by metes and bounds, for her life, whether she have issue by her husband or not, and of what age soever she may be at her husband's decease, provided she be past the age of nine years.The legal estate in dower (being an estate for life) has been abolished and converted into an equitable interest (ibid.), (English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 1; it can only arise in respect of deaths after 1925 in case the deceased husband was a lunatic or defective on January 1st, 1925, and died without regaining testamentary capacity or before...
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