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Source:  Laws of Missouri passed at the session of the Forty-First General
Assembly begun and held at the City of Jefferson Wednesday, January 2, 1901
(Regular Session) [By Authority] Jefferson City, MO: Tribune Printing
Company, State Printers and Binders, 1901

Dower - an ACT to amend Section 2937 of Chapter 21, Revised Statutes of
Missouri, entitled "Dower"

Section 1.  Share of widow or widower in personal estate.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

Section 1.  That section 2937 of chapter 21 of the Revised Statutes of
Missouri, 1899, be amended by inserting between the words "husband" and
"shall," in the second line of said section, the words "or wife," and by
inserting between the words "widow" and "shall" in the third line of said
section the words "or widower," and between words "husband" and "at," in
the fourth line of said section, the words "or wife," and between the words
"his" and  "death" in the fourth line of said section, the words "or her,"
and by adding to said section the words "or wife;" so that said section,
when so amended, shall read as follows:

Section 1937.  When the husband or wife shall die, leaving a child or
children or other descendants, the widow or widower shall be entitled
absolutely to a share in the personal estate belonging to the husband or
wife at the time of his or her death equal to the share of a child of such
deceased husband or wife.  Approved March 26, 1901