Peecksen v. Peecksen

*498v. Pruitt, 57 S. C., 155, 35 S. E., 485, that an action for the admeasurement of dower in lands is a cause in equity.

Sections 1380 and 1382, Pomeroy’s Equity Jurisprudence, Third Edition, read as follows:

“The right known as the wife’s right of dower was purely legal, and was asserted at law through the writ of right of dower, and the writ of dower unde nihil habet, both of which were in the nature of real actions. As early as the reign of Queen Elizabeth, courts of equity began to assume jurisdiction over cases of dower, but only tentatively and as ancillary to proceedings at law. This…