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of her husband, after payment of hid debts, and no more — 1798,
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ch. 101, sub ch. 13, sec. 2, ........
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If the will of the husband devise a part of both real and personal estate,
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she shall renounce the whole, or be otherwise barred of her right
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to both real and personal estate — 1798, ch. 101, sub ch. 13, sec. 3,
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If the will devise only a part of the real estate, or only a part of the
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personal estate, the devise shall bar her of only the real or personal
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estate, as the case may require, provided that if the devise of either
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real or personal estate, or of both, shall be expressly in lieu of her
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legal share of one or both, she shall accordingly be barred, unless
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she renounce as aforesaid — 1798, ch. 101, sub ch. 13, sec. 4,
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But if in effect nothing shall pass by such devise, she shall not be
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thereby barred, whether she shall or shall not renounce as afore-
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said, it being the intention of this act, and consonant to justice,
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that a widow, accepting or abiding by a devise in lieu of her legal
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right, shall be considered as a purchaser with a fair consideration-—
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1798, ch. 101, sub ch. 13, sec. 5, ......
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A widow's remedy for dower shall be as heretofore — 1798, ch. 101,
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sub ch. 13, sec. 6, .........
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Actions of, not to abate by the death of either party — 1801, ch. 74,
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sec. 38, ...........
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Where a man is convicted of bigamy, his first wife shall be forthwith
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endowed of one-third of his real estate, the assignment and reco-
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very to be as in other cases of dower — 1809, ch. 138, sec. 7,
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When a woman is so convicted she shall forfeit her claim to dower of
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the estate of her first husband — 1809, ch. 138, sec. 7, .
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Alien females entitled to dower, on intermarriage with citizens of the
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United States, and residing therein, after such marriage — 1813,
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ch. 100, ...........
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18J3.—CHAPTER 100.
AN ACT relating to Femes Covert.
Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That any
free white female, born without the limits or jurisdiction of the
United States, who hath intermarried, or shall intermarry with a
citizen of the United States, and doth or shall actually reside
therein after such.intermarriage, such female shall have and enjoy,
within this state, all the immunities, rights and privileges, of a na-
tive born citizen, so far as to enable such female to claim, hold and
acquire, in dower, or by gift, grant, purchase, descent, or other-
wise, any lands, tenements or hereditaments, and to sell, convey,
transfer and transmit the same, agreeably to the laws of this state,
to a citizen or citizens of the United States, as fully and amply as
if such female had been born within the limits and under the
jurisdiction of the United States.
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