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Widow's Estate

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Remainder

but the particular estate will be discharged from the condition. If A. make a feoffiment to B., a widow, for life, provided that if she marry again, then her estate shall cease, and immediately after her death … expectant portion, remnant, or residue of interest which, on the creation of a particular estate, is at the same time limited over to another, who is to enjoy it after the determination of such particular estate. After

Dower

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 … 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 … 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,

Free-bench

is regarded as an excrescence growing out of the husband's interest, and is indeed a continuance of his estate. The term free-bench is equally applicable to the estate which, by the custom of some manors, a husband … Free-bench [sedes libera, Lat.], a widow's dower out of copyholds to which she was entitled by the custom of some manors. It is regarded

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, … changed by the commutation of base services into specified rents, either in money or money's worth. A copyhold estate is a parcel of the demesnes of a manor held at the lord's will, and according to the

Jus relicti

Jus relicti, means 'right of a widower'. A widower's right in his deceased wife's separate movable estate, historically two-thirds if there were surviving children, and

Jus relictae

Jus relictae, means 'right of a widower'. A widow's claim to her share of her deceased husband's movable estate. If the widow has children, her

Assignment of dower

and bounds, see (English) Settled Land Act, 1925, ss. 1(1)(3) and 19(1). Dower in respect of the real estate of persons dying after 1925 has been abolished, see s. 45 of the (English) A. E. Act, 1925. … Assignment of dower, the ascertaining and setting out by metes and bounds of a widow's portion of her deceased husband's realty for her thirds or dower. As to the rights of the widow

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