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2010 New York Code
RPP - Real Property
Article 6 - (189 - 207) DOWER AND CURTESY
191 - Dower in lands exchanged.

§  191.  Dower in lands exchanged. If a husband seized of an estate of
  inheritance in lands, exchanges them for other lands,  his  widow  shall
  not have dower of both, but she must make her election, to be endowed of
  the  lands given, or of those taken, in exchange; and if her election be
  not evinced by the commencement of an action to recover her dower of the
  lands given in exchange, within one year after the death of her husband,
  she is deemed to have elected to take her dower of the lands received in
  exchange.

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