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2010 Massachusetts Code
PART II REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS
TITLE II DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION, WILLS, ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS AND ABSENTEES, GUARDIANSHIP, CONSERVATORSHIP AND TRUSTS
CHAPTER 191 WILLS
Section 17 Curtesy or dower; rights in lieu of taking under will
MA Gen L ch 191 § 17 What's This?
[Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 10. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]
Section 17. A husband shall not be entitled to his curtesy in addition to the provisions of his wife’s will, nor a widow to her dower in addition to the provisions of her husband’s will, unless such plainly appears by the will to have been the intention of the testator.
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