§ 189. Estate of curtesy abolished. The common law estate by the curtesy in the real property of a wife dying after the thirty-first day of August, nineteen hundred and thirty, and all its incidents, are hereby abolished.
§ 190. Dower. When the parties intermarried prior to the first day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty, a widow shall be endowed of the third part of all the lands whereof her husband was prior to the first day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty, seized of an estate of inheritance, at any time […]
§ 190-b. Lands reacquired by the husband. Lands in which the husband did not have an estate of inheritance on September first, nineteen hundred thirty, and in which the wife did not then have an inchoate right of dower, shall not be subject to dower or an inchoate right of dower if acquired by the […]
§ 191. Dower in lands exchanged. If a husband seized of an estate of inheritance in lands, exchanges them for other lands, his widow shall not have dower of both, but she must make her election, to be endowed of the lands given, or of those taken, in exchange; and if her election be not […]
§ 192. Dower in lands mortgaged before marriage. Where a person seized of an estate of inheritance in lands, executes a mortgage thereof, before marriage, his widow is, nevertheless, entitled to dower of the lands mortgaged, as against every person except the mortgagee and those claiming under him.
§ 193. Dower in lands mortgaged for purchase-money. Where a husband purchases lands during the marriage, and at the same time mortgages his estate in those lands to secure the payment of the purchase-money, his widow is not entitled to dower of those lands, as against the mortgagee or those claiming under him, although she […]
§ 194. Surplus proceeds of sale under purchase-money mortgages. Where, in a case specified in the last section, the mortgagee, or a person claiming under him, causes the land mortgaged to be sold, after the death of the husband, either under a power of sale contained in the mortgage, or by virtue of a judgment […]
§ 195. Widow of mortgagee not endowed. A widow shall not be endowed of the lands conveyed to her husband by way of mortgage, unless he acquires an absolute estate therein, during the marriage.
§ 196. When dower barred by misconduct. In case of a divorce, dissolving the marriage contract for the misconduct of the wife, she shall not be endowed.
§ 196-a. When dower barred by dissolution of marriage. In case of a dissolution of the marriage because of the absence of the wife for five successive years, as provided in section seven-a of the domestic relations law, she shall not be endowed.
§ 197. When dower barred by jointure. Where an estate in real property is conveyed to a person and his intended wife, or to the intended wife alone, or to a person in trust for them or for the intended wife alone, for the purpose of creating a jointure for her, and with her assent, […]
§ 198. When dower barred by pecuniary provisions. Any pecuniary provision, made for the benefit of an intended wife and in lieu of dower, if assented to by her as prescribed in the last section, bars her right or claim of dower in all the lands of her husband.
§ 199. When widow to elect between jointure and dower. If, before the marriage, but without her assent, or, if after the marriage, real property is given or assured for the jointure of a wife, or a pecuniary provision is made for her, in lieu of dower, she must make her election whether she will […]
§ 200. Election between devise and dower. If real property is devised to a woman, or a pecuniary or other provision is made for her by will in lieu of her dower, she must make her election whether she will take the property so devised, or the provisions so made, or be endowed of the […]
§ 201. When deemed to have elected. Where a woman is entitled to an election, as prescribed in either of the last two sections, she is deemed to have elected to take the jointure, devise or pecuniary provision, unless within six months after the death of her husband she enters upon the lands assigned to […]
§ 202. When provision in lieu of dower is forfeited. Every jointure, devise and pecuniary provision in lieu of dower is forfeited by the woman for whose benefit it is made in a case in which she would forfeit her dower; and on such forfeiture, an estate so conveyed for jointure, or devised, or a […]
§ 203. Effect of acts of husband. An act, deed or conveyance, executed or performed by the husband without the assent of his wife, evidenced by her acknowledgment thereof, in the manner required by law to pass the contingent right of dower of a married woman, or a judgment or decree confessed by or recovered […]
§ 204. Widow’s quarantine. A widow may remain in the chief house of her husband forty days after his death, whether her dower is sooner assigned to her or not, without being liable to any rent for the same; and in the meantime she may have her reasonable sustenance out of the estate of her […]
§ 205. Widow may bequeath a crop. A widow may bequeath a crop in the ground of land held by her in dower.
§ 206. Divorced woman may release dower. A woman who is divorced from her husband, whether such divorce be absolute or limited, or granted in his or her favor, by any court of competent jurisdiction, may release to him, by an instrument in writing, sufficient to pass title to real estate, her inchoate right of […]
