Dower
Ballentine's Law Dictionary · James A. Ballentine · 1916
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
A widow’s life estate in one-third of the real property of which her husband was seised of an estate of inheritance during the marriage.
See 135 111. 448, 25 Am. St. Rep. 392, 11 L. R. A. 790, 26 N. E. 582.