Estate In Dower
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A species of life-estate which a woman is, by law, entitled to cluim on the death of her husband, in the lands and tenements of which he was seised in fee during the marriage, and which her issue, if any, might by possibility have inherited.
1 Steph. Comm. 249; 2 Bl. Comm. 129; Cruise, Dig. tit. 6; 2 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 124, § 1117; 4 Kent, Comin. 55. See