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New York Real Property Law Section 191 - Dower In Lands Exchanged.Legal Research Home > New York Lawyer > Real Property > New York Real Property Law Section 191 - Dower In Lands Exchanged.
§ 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 evinced by the commencement of an action to recover her dower of the
lands given in exchange, within one year after the death of her husband,
she is deemed to have elected to take her dower of the lands received in
exchange.
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