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Copyhold
Wm. 4, c. 104, and the (English) Judgments Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 110). (9) The widow of a copyholder, according to a particular custom, is entitled to a certain portion of her husband's lands, … can inspect and take copies of to use as he may think proper; and the Court of Queen's Bench (now the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice) will order the lord to allow such
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Magna Carta
without disparagements--that is, should not be compelled to contract an improper or unequal marriage. The 7th chapter concerns widows, and enacts that:-'A widow, after the death of her husband, incontinent, and without any difficulty, shall have her … for difficulty of some Articles cannot be determined by them, shall be referred to our justicers of the bench, and there shall be ended.' Assizes or actions of novel disseisin and mort-dauncestor have long been abolished, and
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