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JUS RELICTAE

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 593 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JUS RELICTAE , in Scots See also:law, the widow's right in the movable See also:property of her deceased See also:husband. The deceased must have been domiciled in See also:Scotland, but the right accrues from movable property, wherever situated. The widow's See also:provision amounts to one-third where there are ,See also:children surviving, and to one-See also:half where there are no surviving children. The widow's right vests by survivance, and is See also:independent of the husband's testamentary provisions; it may however be renounced by See also:contract, or be discharged by See also:satisfaction. It is subject to See also:alienation of the husband's movable See also:estate during his lifetime or by its See also:conversion into heritage. See also WILL.

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