Widow
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A woman whose husband is dead, and who has not remarried.
164 Iowa 208; 145 N. W. 467.
As used in statute of distributions, this does not include a divorced woman, though it may in the law of dower.
37 Hun (N. Y.) 152; 103 N. Y. 284, 288.