¶1 By the Court,
¶2The only material question presented by this appeal is, whether the appellant was entitled to dower in an undivided one-eighth of the real estate of which Paul M. P. Durando died seised, and in which one-eighth her husband, Peter L. P. Durando, at the time of his death, had a vested remainder in fee.
¶3It seems perfectly settled that the appellant was not entitled to dower in such one-eighth, because her husband never had the possession, or the right of possession. His mother, under the will of his father, Paul M. P. Durando, took a life estate in all the real estate of the testator. Peter died before his mother, leaving her seised of this life estate. As Peter’s remainder in fee never vested in him in possession, he was never seised, either in deed or in law.
¶4Seisin has been defined to be the possession of a freehold estate. (3 Litt. § 324. 8 N. H. Rep. 57. 4 Mass. Rep. 408.) Seisin in fact or in deed, the actual possession; seisin in law, the right to the possession.
¶5As the appellant’s husband was never seised in deed or in law, she was not entitled to dower, either at common law or under our statute. (Co. Litt. 31 a. 4 Kent’s Com. 37. 39. *530Green v. Putnam, 1 Barb. S. C. R. 506. Beekman v. Hudson, 20 Wend. 53. Bafford v. Bafford, 7 Paige. 259.)
¶6Sutherland, Ingraham and Bonney, Justices.]
¶7The order of the special term should he affirmed.