Chap. 425.—An ACT to amend and re-enact. section 2274 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to dower.

Approved December 12, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-two hundred and seventy-four of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2274. What a widow entitled to until her dower is assigned.—Untii
her dower is assigned, the widow may hold, occupy, and enjoy the man-
sion house and curtilage without charge for rent, repairs, taxes, or in-
surance; and, in the meantime, she shall be entitled to demand of the
heirs, devisees, or alienees, or any of them, one-third part of the issues
and profits of the other real estate which descended or was devised or
passed to them, of which she is dowable, after deducting the costs of
mecessary repairs, taxes, and insurance. If she be deprived of such man-
sion house and curtilage, she may, on complaint of unlawful entry or de-
tainer, recover the possession thereof, with damages for the time she was
so deprived: provided, that nothing in this act shall be construed to im-
pair the lien or delay the enforcement thereof of the State, city, or county
for the taxes assessed upon said property.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.