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unless the person so applying shall have resided within this State
for two years next preceding his or her application.

28. When a bill prays for a divorce a vinculo matrimonii, the
fact that the parties have been divorced a mensa et thoro shall
not be taken to interfere with the jurisdiction of the court over
the subject.

29. The admission of a respondent of the facts charged in a
bill for a divorce who consents to the application, shall not bo
taken of itself as conclusive proof of the facts charged, as the
ground of the application.

DOWER.

30. The several courts of equity shall have full concurrent juris-
diction with the courts of law in all claims for dower, and shall
have power to try all questions of law which may arise in such
cases, and give as full relief in any case as the complainant could
have obtained heretofore, in either a court of equity or a court
of law, or in both courts.

31. Where any infant feme covert shall, in respect of her
dower, unite with her husband in any conveyance or lease, exe-
cuted and acknowledged in form for passing feme covert's real
estate, of any lands, tenements or hereditaments, and the courts
of equity of this State shall, as concerns such feme covert's
dower, deem such conveyance or lease equitable, expedient or
proper, the said court, on application by any of the parties inte-
rested, and on proper parties defendants being made, may, accord-
ing to the rules of equity, proceed to adjudge and decree that
such conveyance or lease be confirmed and made valid from the
time of execution of the same, to every effect, intent and purpose,
as if the feme covert at the said execution were of the full age
of twenty-one years.

32. In all cases where lands and tenements are to be sold
under a decree, and the widow who is entitled to dower in such
lands will consent in writing to the sale of the entire estate
therein, the court shall order the same to be sold free from any
claim of dower, and allow the widow such portion of the net
proceeds of sale as may be just and equitable, not exceeding one-
seventh nor less than one-tenth, according to the age, health and
condition of such widow.