Subject: JUS RELICTA
Resent-Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 21:32:01 -0800 (PST)
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 00:30:31 -0500
From: "Steven J. Coker" 
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Extracted From:
  A LAW DICTIONARY ..., SIXTH EDITION, 1856
  by John Bouvier, CHILDS & PETERSON, PHILADELPHIA

JUS RELICTA, Scotch law. The right of a wife, after her husband's death, to a
third of movables, if there be children; and to one-half, if there be none.

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