558.3 Dower in mortgaged lands; mortgage before marriage.
Sec. 3.
When a person seized of an estate of inheritance in lands, shall have executed a mortgage of such estate before marriage, his widow shall be entitled to a dower out of the lands mortgaged, as against every person except the mortgagee and those claiming under him.
History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 66 ;– CL 1857, 2774 ;– CL 1871, 4271 ;– How. 5735 ;– CL 1897, 8920 ;– CL 1915, 11656 ;– CL 1929, 13074 ;– CL 1948, 558.3