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Relict

Relict, a widow. Relict, means a widow, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1293.

Dowress

Dowress, a widow entitled to dower.

Discovert

Discovert, a widow; a woman unmarried; one not within the bonds of matrimony

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Dowager

Dowager, a widow endowed.

Chuck Wills widow

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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

Distribution, Statute of

10), now only applied to intestacies prior to 1926, repealed by (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925 (see WIDOW), explained by the Statute of Frauds, 29 Car. 2, c. 3, enacts that the surplusage of intestates' personal

Free-bench

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

Marriage

3 Sm 3 Gif 481, aff. In (1861) 9 HLC 193. The law prohibiting marriage with a brother's widow or a deceased wife's sister remained long in force in England, inspite of many attempts to follow the

Intestates Estates Act, 1890 (English)

and not re-enacted by the A.E. Act, 1925, in the case of persons dying intestate after 1925. See WIDOW. By the Act of 1890 the real and personal estate of every man dying wholly intestate after September

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