Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

Thirds

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

The designation, in colloquial language, of that portion of a decedent's personal estate (one-third) which goes to the widow where there is also a child or children.

See Yeomans v. Stevens, 2 Allen (Mass.) 350; O'Hara v. Dever, 46 Barb. (N. Y.) 614.