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• Right of Widow to Dower - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.1
  The widow of every deceased person, shall be entitled to dower, or the use during her natural life, of 1/3 part of all the...
• Dower in Lands Exchanged; Election - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.2
  If a husband seized of an estate of inheritance in lands, exchange them for other lands, his widow shall not have dower of both,...
• Dower in Mortgaged Lands; Mortgage Before Marriage - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.3
  When a person seized of an estate of inheritance in lands, shall have executed a mortgage of such estate before marriage, his widow shall...
• Dower in Mortgaged Lands; Purchase Money Mortgage Given After Marriage - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.4
  When a husband shall purchase lands during coverture, and shall at the same time mortgage his estate in such lands to secure the payment...
• Dower in Surplus of Proceeds From Foreclosure of Mortgage - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.5
  Where in either of the cases mentioned in the 2 last preceding sections, or in case of a mortgage in which she shall have...
• Dower in Lands Released by Payment of Mortgage - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.6
  If, in either of the cases above specified, the heir or other person claiming under the husband, shall pay and satisfy the mortgage, the...
• Dower in Aliened Lands; Estimation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.7
  When a widow shall be entitled to dower out of any lands which shall have been aliened by the husband in his lifetime, and...
• Alternative Dower Rights Before Assignment; Occupation, Profits and Rents Receipts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.12
  When a widow is entitled to dower in the lands of which her husband died seized, she may continue to occupy the same with...
• Barring of Dower; Joining in Conveyance, Release - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.13
  A married woman residing within this state may bar her right of dower in any estate conveyed by her husband or by his guardian,...
• Barring of Dower; Jointure - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.14
  A woman may also be barred of her dower in all the lands of her husband by a jointure settled on her with her...
• Barring of Dower; Expression of Assent to Jointure - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.15
  Such assent shall be expressed, if the woman be of full age, by her becoming a party to the conveyance by which it is...
• Barring of Dower; Antenuptial Pecuniary Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.16
  Any pecuniary provision that shall be made for the benefit of an intended wife, and in lieu of dower, shall, if assented to as...
• Renewal of Dower - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.20
  If a woman is lawfully evicted of lands assigned to her as dower, or settled upon her as jointure or is deprived of the...
• Dower Right of Aliens and Nonresidents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.21
  A woman being an alien, shall not on that account be barred of her dower, and any woman residing out of the state, shall...
• Waste Liability; Maintenance of Tenements and Appurtenances - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.22
  No woman, who shall be endowed of any lands, shall commit or suffer any waste on the same, but every woman so endowed shall...
• Damages Upon Recovery of Dower; Widow's Rights - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.24
  Whenever in any action brought for the purpose, a widow shall recover her dower in lands of which her husband shall have died seized,...
• Damages Upon Recovery of Dower; Measure - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.25
  Such damages shall be 1/3 part of the annual value of the mesne profits of the lands in which she shall so recover her...
• Damages Upon Recovery of Dower; Use of Added Improvements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.26
  Such damages shall not be estimated for the use of any permanent improvements made after the death of her husband by his heirs, or...
• Damages Upon Recovery of Dower; Against Heir Alienating Land - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.27
  When a widow shall recover her dower in any lands alienated by the heir of her husband, she shall be entitled to recover of...
• Assignment of Dower; Effect of Acceptance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.28
  When the widow shall have accepted an assignment of dower, in satisfaction of her claim upon all the lands of her husband, it shall...
• Collusive Recovery by Widow; Effect on Rights of Infants or Others Entitled to Land - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.29
  When a widow not having right to dower, shall during the infancy of the heirs of the husband, or any of them, or of...
• Dower Claimed by Two or More Widows; Liability of Land to Claims After Discharge of Dower - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.52
  Where dower in any lands may be claimed by 2 or more widows, the 1 whose husband was first seized therein, shall be first...
• Repealed - Barring of Dower or Homestead (558.71 - 558.71) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Claim of Dower; Filing, Contents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.81
  All persons having or claiming dower, whether inchoate or consummate, in lands conveyed, or otherwise disposed of, more than 25 years prior to the...
• Claim of Dower; Effect of Failure to File - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.82
  Any person having or claiming dower whether inchoate or consummate, in lands conveyed, or otherwise disposed of, as mentioned in section 1 of this...
• Claim of Dower; Filing, Contents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.91
  All persons having or claiming dower, whether inchoate or consummate, in lands heretofore or hereafter conveyed, or otherwise disposed of, by the person who...
• Claim of Dower; Effect of Failure to File - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 558.92
  Any person having or claiming dower whether inchoate or consummate, in lands heretofore or hereafter conveyed, or otherwise disposed of, as mentioned in section...

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