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An Act concerning Dower. 1825 30 (1825)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsfl0046 and id is 1 raw text is: AN ACT' Cocerning Dower. Rie it enacted b1 the Governor and Legislative Council: Intetates-... wi. of the Territory of Florida, That when any person dow inaydissent 'shall die intestate, or shall make his last.will and tes- to w ill1 d o w r...- I proviso. tament, and not therein make any express provision for his wife, by giving and devising unto her, such part- or parcel of real and personal estate as shall be fully satisfactory to her, such widow may signify her dis- sentthereto. in the superior or county court, of the county wherein she resides, (and if. there be no court in the county then to either of said courts in the next adjoining county,)at any time within one year after the probate of such will, and then and in that case, she shall be entitled to dower in the following manner, to wit: one third part of all the lands, tenements, and hereditaments, of which her husband. died seized and' possessed, or had before conveyed, whereof said wid. ow had not relinquished her right of dower as hereto- fore provided for by law, which third part shall be, and inure tolier proper use and behoof in and during the, -term of her natural life ; in which said third part shall be comprehended the dwelling house in which her husband shall have been accustomed most generally to dwell next before his death, together with the of- .fipes, outhouses, buildings, and other improvements thereunto belonging or appertaining :, Provided, that if it should appear totheJudge or Justices of the courts to whom application is made, that the. whole of said dwelling house, outhouses, buildings, and other im- provments thereunto appertaining eanot be applied to the use of the widow, withQut manifest injustice to the children or other heirs, then,, and in that case, such wi4ow qhall.be entitled to such part not less than one third part only. as .the Court.maydeem reasonable and just. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That when a husband dies intestate, or shall make his last will and testa- ment,.and not make provision therein for his wife cm

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