 Tenant in dower is where a man is seised of certain lands or tenements in fee simple, fee tail general, or as heir in special tail, and taketh a wife, and dieth, the wife, after the decease of her husband, shall be endowed of the third part of such lands...  Abstract of the Laws of the District of Columbia - Side 7av Michael Thompson - 1855 - 43 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | William Cruise - 1818 - 636 sider
...and is thus described by Littleton, § 36. — " Tenant in dower is where a man is seised of certain lands and tenements in fee simple, fee tail general, or as heir in special tail, and taketh a wife 'and dieth ; the wife, after the decease of her husband, shall be endowed of a third... | |
 | William Cruise - 1818 - 598 sider
...by Littleton, § 36. — " Tenant in dower is where a man is seised of certain lands and tenement?. in fee simple, fee tail general, or as heir in special tail, and taketh a wife and dieth ; the wife, after the decease of her husband, shall be endowed of a third... | |
 | Sir Edmund Saunders, Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - 1824 - 494 sider
...insisted, namely, that it appeared by (A) If the husband at any time during the coverture is seised in fee simple, fee tail general, or as heir in special tail, upon his death his wife is entitled by the common law to dower, provided she is then 9 years old, whether... | |
 | Henry Stalman - 1827 - 454 sider
...husband, is entitled to be endowed of the third part of such lands and tenements whereof he was seised in fee simple, fee tail general, or as heir in special tail, at any time during the coverture ; to hold the same in severally by metes and bounds, for the term... | |
 | William Cruise - 1835 - 502 sider
...Littleton, s. Dower at com36.—" Tenant in dower is where a man is seised of certain mon lawlands and tenements in fee simple, fee tail general, or as heir in special tail, and taketh a wife, and dieth; the wife, after the decease of her husband, shall be endowed of a third... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1843 - 752 sider
...Cruise, Dig. t. 5, c. 1 ; 2 Bl. Com. 126. ESTATE IN DOWER, is the right of a woman in a third part of all the lands and tenements, in fee simple, fee...heir in special tail, of which her deceased husband waa seised, either in deed or 522 523 in law, at any time during the coverture, and of which any issue... | |
 | Sir Thomas Littleton - 1846 - 276 sider
...described. Of what estate widow dowable. — Tenant in dower is, where a man is seised of certain lands or tenements in fee simple, fee tail general, or as heir in special tail, and taketh a wife, and dieth ; the wife, after the decease of her husband, shall he endowed of the... | |
 | John Edward Bright - 1849 - 650 sider
...is thus described by Littleton (b) : " Tenant in dower is, where a man is seised of certain lands or tenements in fee simple, fee tail general, or as heir in special tail, and taketh a wife and dieth, the wife, after the decease of her husband, shall be endowed of the third... | |
 | Humphry William Woolrych - 1853 - 448 sider
...dower is included in the like exception. Tenant in dower is, where a man is seised of certain lands or tenements in fee simple, fee tail general, or as heir in special tail, and takes a wife and dies, the wife, after the decease of her husband, shall be endowed of the third... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1854 - 692 sider
...Definition and kinds of dower. 1735. Dower, at common law, is the right of a woman in a third part of all the lands and tenements, in fee simple, fee...in special tail, of which her deceased husband was seised, either in deed or in law, at any time during the coverture, and of which any issue she might... | |
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