Davis v. Wetherell’s Empirical Analysis
1866
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cited by 1 later decisions
February 2001
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“[A wife's] inchoate right of dower is a right of a very peculiar nature. It is a right of which nothing but her death or voluntary act can deprive her, and so it is something more than a mere possibility.”
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