Widow
(n) A widow is the women whose husband died during the existence of their marriage life and, she is not married again.
Widow: If you and the person who died were legally married at the time of death, then you are considered that person's widow/widower.
Wage cap: The maximum amount of a worker's earnings that are subject to the Social Security payroll tax.
Widow: A married woman whose husband has died and who has not remarried.
Widow. A woman who has lost her husband by death.
Wife. A woman who has a husband living.
widow
n. a woman whose husband died while she was married to him and who has not since remarried. A divorced woman whose ex-husband dies is not a widow, except for the purpose of certain Social Security benefits traceable to the ex-husband.
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 whichh a man must remain a widower, or a woman a widow, before they marry a second time.
widow's election
n. the choice a widow makes between accepting what her husband left her in his will and what she would receive by the laws of succession.
A widow after the death of her husband shall at once and without hindrance have her marriage and inheritance, nor give anything for her dower, or for her marriage, or for her inheritance, ...
DOWER: A widow's interest (sometimes just a life estate) in real property owned by her deceased husband.
qualifying widow(er) The filing status used by a qualified person for the two years following a spouse's death.
They were considered to be "dead", so much so that their land was forfeited to the King and their wife considered to be a widow. If they refused to renounce their oath, they could be starved out of the sanctuary.
An adhesion contract "takes advantage" of people in a weakened bargaining position, such as the proverbial widow on the farm in the clutches of the mustachioed villain Simon Legree.
(2) The widow, in the event of there being no children or next of kin, takes only her half. The other half goes to the crown. The widow's rights, however, have been enlarged by the Intestate Estates Act 1890.
that portion of a deceased husband's real property that a widow is legally entitled to use during her lifetime to support herself and their children. A wife may claim the dower if her husband dies without a will or if she dissents from the will.
inventor, designer, engraver, or any of them, where the work had been originally composed and made by wore than one person, be still living, and a citizen or citizens of the United States, or resident therein, or being dead, shall have left a widow, ...
: personal benefit, use, or possession (as of rights or property) <widows and widowers were relegated to lifetime ~ of the marital estates W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al.>
specif
: the receipt of the fruits or profits of property ...
Dum vidua
Latin: for so long as she remains a widow.
Duplex
A house having separate but complete facilities to accommodate two families, either as adjacent units or one on top of the other.
UNDE NIHIL HABET.
Of which she has nothing. When no dower had been assigned to the widow during the time prescribed by law, she could, at common law, sue... more ...
 See also: Will, Were, Wife, Witness, Wrong
  
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