§ 474 - Husband's interest in lieu of curtesy - Vermont Statutes

§ 474. Husband's interest in lieu of curtesy

A widower shall be entitled in fee to one-third in value of all the real estate of which his wife died seised. If the wife left surviving her only one heir and such heir is the issue of the husband or the heir by adoption of both the wife and husband, he shall be entitled to half in value of such real estate in fee, and his interest may be assigned and set out to him in the same manner as is provided for the severance of the interest of the widow in the real estate of her deceased husband. The husband may be barred of such third or half, as the case may be, when he is entitled to and takes the provision made for him in section 551 of this title, or accepts the provision made for him by the last will and testament of his wife.