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n

Common law; the right of a wife to one third of the real property owned by her husband at his death, for the duration of her life.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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