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120 DIRECTIONS for
EXrs. and ADMrs.
the doing of which, the law allows her forty
days from the probate of the will: if she neglects
to enter her election within that time, the law
will conclude her by the bequests in the will,
and she may not thereafter claim her thirds.
Where the testator doth bequeath part of his
personal, and devise also part of his real estate
to his wife, instead of her thirds and dower, it
is at her election either to accept both, or to
stand to the devise of the real estate instead of
her dower, and refuse the bequest of the personal
estate, and in lieu thereof claim her
thirds; or she may accept the latter, and refuse
the former, at her will and pleasure.
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