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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

Assignment of dower

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

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

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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

Reasonable parts

Reasonable parts. The two-thirds of a man's personal property, one of which went on his death to his widow, and the other to his children, the remaining third going in accordance with his will. This right of

Pension

a rate aided patient of unsound mind; or criminal lunatic; or in a mental hospital. But see (English) Widows, Orphans and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act, 1936, s. 11, in regard to pensions to persons who have

Uses

he could bring no action, having neither title nor legal estate in the property. (5) Neither could a widow be endowed, nor could a husband have his curtesy of a use, because the cestui que use had

Sati

Sati, means the act of burning or burying alive of-- (i) any widow along with the body of her deceased husband or any other relative or with any article, object or

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

Paternity

with his wife before the marriage (The Poulett Peerage, 1903, AC 395). It becomes a question, when a widow marries immediately after the death of her husband, and she is delivered of a child at the expiration

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