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Widower

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Widow, a woman whose husband is dead and who has not remarried, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1592.

King's widow, a widow of the King's tenant-in-chief, who was obliged to take oath in Chancery that she would not

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Widow's Chamber. In London the widow of a freeman was, by the custom of the city, entitled to her

Widow-Bench, the share of her husband's estate which a widow is allowed besides her jointure

qualifying widow(er) The filing status used by a qualified person for the two years following a spouse's death.

Widow's Terce, the right for life which a wife has after her husband's death to a third of the

Widow's Estate, is the result of the sastric law codified through judicial precedents. Thus the 'women's estate' in its

Deceased wife's sister or deceased brother's widow. See MARRIAGE (prohibited degrees).

A widow endowed or having a jointure a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband or has

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