 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 896 pages
...of which her husband was seised in fee-simple or fee-tail at any time during the coverture j and of which any issue she might have had might by possibility have been heir. See JOINTURE. DOWN, a county of Ireland in the province of Ulster ; bounded on the east and south by... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 856 pages
...of which her husband was seised in fee-simple or fee-tail at any time during the coverture; and of 1 B &k$RM ^ 60 ] h ( P q r G : 1 `y iL }Rs D Wod~ JOINVILLE (John Sire de), an eminent French statesman of the thirteenth century, who was seneschal,... | |
 | William Burge - Comparative law - 1838 - 876 pages
...attainder be reversed, or she die before judgment, (d) By the intermarriage the wife becomes entitled to an estate for life, upon surviving her husband,...seised during the coverture, and to which any issue she had might by possibility have been heir. It is termed her dower, (e) If the wife be an alien, she will... | |
 | Solomon Atkinson - Conveyancing - 1839 - 708 pages
...— Of the statute for the amendment of the law of dower, 278. By marriage the wife becomes entitled to an estate for life upon surviving her husband, in a third part of all estates of inheritance, of which he was solely seised at any time during coverture, and which her issue... | |
 | John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...deceased husband waa seised, either in deed or 522 523 in law, at any time during the coverture, and of which any issue she might have had, might by possibility have been heir. Litt. § 36. To create a title to dower, three things are indispensably requisite, 1. Marriage. This... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - Married women - 1845 - 404 pages
...lands whereof the husband was seized, either in deed or in law, at any time during the marriage, and of which any issue she might have had might by possibility have been heir." This is the old common law definition of dower, and it will be found, in most law books, in these words.... | |
 | Sir Sydney Smith Bell - Husband and wife - 1850 - 384 pages
...the husband, the law gives to the wife surviving in all estates of inheritance, of which the husband was solely seised during the coverture, and to which any issue she might have had might by any possibility have been heir. The object of the estate so given is the support of the widow, and... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1854 - 692 pages
...her deceased husband was seised, either in deed or in law, at any time during the coverture, and of which any issue she might have had, might by possibility have been heir, to hold to herself during her natural life. (6) 1736. Besides this kind of dower, which is the only... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 648 pages
...of which her husband was seized in fee simple, or fee tail, at any time during the coverture; and of which any issue she might have had might by possibility have been heir. 2 Black. Comm. 131. The RS 1843, in some respects, change the nature of the estate. They provide that... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 582 pages
...natural life, of the third part of the land whereof her husband was seized during the coverture, and of which any issue she might have had, might by possibility have been heir. By our statute, "the widow of any person dying, shall be endowed of one full and equal third part of... | |
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... at any time during the coverture, and of which any issue she might have had might by possibility have been heir. 
