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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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