CHAP. 490.— An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5117 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, in relation to a widow’s dower. (H B 73]

Approved March 28, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion five thousand one hundred and seventeen of the Code of Vir-
ginia be amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 5117. Of what a widow shall be endowed.—A widow shall.
if her husband die testate, be endowed of one-third, and if he die
intestate and without issue of this marriage, or of a former marriage,
cndowed of all the real estate whereof her husband, or any other to
his use, was, at any time during the coverture, seised of an estate of
inheritance, unless her right to such dower shall have been lawfully
barred or relinquished. :