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Section 558.24 - Damages upon recovery of dower; widow's rights.

Revised Statutes of 1846 (EXCERPT)
ESTATES IN DOWER

558.24 Damages upon recovery of dower; widow's rights.

Sec. 24.

Whenever in any action brought for the purpose, a widow shall recover her dower in lands of which her husband shall have died seized, she shall be entitled also to recover damages for the withholding of such dower.


History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 66 ;-- CL 1857, 2795 ;-- CL 1871, 4292 ;-- How. 5756 ;-- CL 1897, 8941 ;-- CL 1915, 11673 ;-- CL 1929, 13091 ;-- CL 1948, 558.24