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Dower

Prov.; douaire, Fr.; a dowry of marriage provision; douairiere, a widow in possession of her portion, a dowager], the right which

or wives, parents, children, minor brothers, unmarried sisters, deceased son's widow and children and where no parent of the subscriber is

1926, repealed by (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925 (see WIDOW), explained by the Statute of Frauds, 29 Car. 2, c.

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Free-bench [sedes libera, Lat.], a widow's dower out of copyholds to which she was entitled by

9 HLC 193. The law prohibiting marriage with a brother's widow or a deceased wife's sister remained long in force in

in the case of persons dying intestate after 1925. See WIDOW. By the Act of 1890 the real and personal estate

contract an improper or unequal marriage. The 7th chapter concerns widows, and enacts that:-'A widow, after the death of her husband,

the condition. If A. make a feoffiment to B., a widow, for life, provided that if she marry again, then her

ascertaining and setting out by metes and bounds of a widow's portion of her deceased husband's realty for her thirds or

criminal lunatic; or in a mental hospital. But see (English) Widows, Orphans and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act, 1936, s. 11,

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