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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 3B:28-2

  • Dower: A widow
  • Estate: means all of the property of a decedent, minor or incapacitated individual, trust or other person whose affairs are subject to this title as the property is originally constituted and as it exists from time to time during administration. See New Jersey Statutes 3B:1-1
  • person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
3B:28-2. No right of dower or curtesy created on or after May 28, 1980.

No right of dower or curtesy in real property shall arise if, on or after May 28, 1980, an individual shall become married, or such person or another to his use, shall become seized of an estate of inheritance.

Amended 2004, c.132, s.90; 2005, c.160, s.20.