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27 H. 8, CAP. 10, USES. 385 such case, every Woman married, having such Jointer made, or hereafter to be made, shall not claim, nor have Title to have any Dower of the Residue of the Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, that at any time were her said Husbands, by whom she hath any such Jointer, nor shall demand nor claim her Dower of and against them that have the Lands and Inheritances of her said Husband; (4) but if she have no such Jointer, then she shall be admitted and enabled to pursue, have, and demand her Dower by Writ of Dower, after the due Course and Order of the Common Laws of this Realm; this Act, or any Law or Provision made to the contrary thereof not- withstanding. VII. Provided alway. That if any such Woman be law- fully expulsed or evicted from her said Jointer, or from any part thereof, without any Fraud or Covin, by lawful Entry, Action, or by Discontinuance of her Husband, then every such Woman shall be endowed of as much of the Residue of her Husband's Tenements or Hereditaments, whereof she was be- fore dowable, as the same Lands and Tenements so evicted and expulsed shall amount or extend unto. VIII. Provided also, That this Act, nor any tiling therein contained or expressed, extend, or be in any wise hurtful or prejudical to any Woman or Women heretofore being married, of, for or concerning such Right. Title, Use, Interest, or Pos- session, as they or any of them have, claim, or pretend to have for her or their Jointer or Dower, of. in, or to any .Manors, Lands, Tenements, or other Hereditaments of any of their laic * Husbands, being now dead or deceased; any filing con- 297 tained in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding. IX. Provided also. That if any Wife have, or hereafter shall have any .Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments unto her given and assured after Marriage, for term of her Life, or otherwise in Jointer, except the same Assurance be to her made by Act of Parliament, and the said Wife after that fortune to overlive her said Husband, in whose time the said Jointer was made or assured unto her, that then the same Wife so overliving shall and may at her liberty, after the Death of her said Husband, refuge to have and take the Lands and Tenements so to her given, appointed, or assured during the Coverture, for term of her Life, or otherwise in Jointer, except the same Assurance lie to her made by Act of Parliament, as is aforesaid, (2) and thereupon to have, ask, demand, and take (25) |
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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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