Section 558.21 - Dower right of aliens and nonresidents. - Michigan Statutes

Revised Statutes of 1846 (EXCERPT)
ESTATES IN DOWER

558.21 Dower right of aliens and nonresidents.

Sec. 21.

A woman being an alien, shall not on that account be barred of her dower, and any woman residing out of the state, shall be entitled to dower of the lands of her deceased husband, lying in this state, of which her husband died seized, and the same may be assigned to her, or recovered by her, in like manner as if she and her deceased husband had been residents within the state at the time of his death.

History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 66 ;-- CL 1857, 2792 ;-- CL 1871, 4289 ;-- How. 5753 ;-- CL 1897, 8938 ;-- CL 1915, 11670 ;-- CL 1929, 13088 ;-- CL 1948, 558.21