Part

In English law

That portion of the effects of a deceased person which, by the custom of London andf York, is allowed to the administrator; being, where the deceased leaves a widow and children, onethird; where he leaves only a widow or only children, one-half; and where he leaves neither, the whole. This portion the administrator was wont to apply to his ovm use, till the statute 1 Jac. II. c. 17, declared that the same should be subject to the statute of distributions.

2 BL Com. 518. 2 Stepk, Com. 254. 4 Reeves' Hist, 83.

A similar portion in Scotch law is called dead's part, (q. v.)