McMahon v. Russell

The Chief Justice

delivered the opinion of the court.

The statute, (Thomp. Dig., 184, 185,) declares that the widow “shall be entitled to dower in the following manner, to-wit: one-thiTd part of all the lands, tenements and here-ditaments, of which her husband died, seized and possessed, or had before conveyed, whereof said widow liad hot relinquished her right of dower.”

It is contended that the appellee was not entitled to dower *182under the terms oi' the statute, because her husband did not die “seized and possessed'” oi the land in which she claims dower; and that he had not “before conveyed"…