WIDOW, WIDOWER - Steven J. Coker
Subject: WIDOW, WIDOWER
From: Steven J. Coker
Date: December 05, 1998

Extracted From:
  A LAW DICTIONARY ..., SIXTH EDITION, 1856
  by John Bouvier, CHILDS & PETERSON, PHILADELPHIA

WIDOW. An unmarried woman whose husband is dead. 
  2. In legal writings, widow is an addition given to a woman who is unmarried
and whose husband is dead. The addition of spinster is given to a woman who
never was married....

WIDOW'S CHAMBER, Eng. law. In London the apparel of a widow and the furniture of
her chamber, left by her deceased husband, is so called, and the widow is
entitled to it....

WIDOWHOOD. The state of a man whose wife is dead or of a woman whose husband is
dead. In general there is no law to regulate the time during which a man must
remain a widower, or a woman a widow, before they marry a second time. The term
widowhood is mostly applied to the state or condition of a widow. 

WIDOWER. A man whose wife is dead. A widower has a right to administer to his
wife's separate estate, and as her administrator to collect debts due to her,
generally for his own use.

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