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Meaning of Writ of dower
In practice. A writ which lies for a widow claiming the specific recovery of her dower, no part having been yet assigned to her. It is, usually called a writ of dower unde nihil habet. 3 Chit. PI. 393; Booth, 166. There is another species, called a “writ of right of dower,” which applies to the particular case where the widow has received ‘a part of her dower from the tenant himself, and of land lying in the same town in which she claims the residue. Booth, 166; Glanv. lib. 6, c. 4, 5. This latter writ is seldom used in practice.
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