Widow's Bequest of Corn on her Land Act 1235

by the English Parliament

PROVISIONES DE MERTON. Statutes made at Merton in Crastino Sancti Vincentii (scil. 23. Jan.) Anno 20 HEN. III. and Ann. Dom. 1235.

Widow's Bequest of Corn on her Land Act 1235

1235 (20 Hen. 3) C A P. II.

IT was provided in the Court of our Lord the King, holden at Merton on Wednesday the morrow after the Feast of St. Vincent, the 20th Year of the Reign of King HENRY the Son of King JOHN, before William * Archbishop of Canterbury, and other his Bishops and Suffragans, and before the greater part of the Earls and Barons of England, there being assembled for the Coronation of the said King, and Hellianor the Queen, about which they were all called, where it was treated for the Commonwealth of the Realm upon the Articles underwritten, thus it was provided and granted, as well of the foresaid Archbishops, Bishops, Earls, and Barons, as of the King himself and others."

Widows may bequeath the Crop of their Lands.

Also from henceforth Widows may bequeath the Crop of their Ground, as well of their Dowers, as of other their Lands and Tenements, saving to the Lords of the Fee, all such Services as be due for their Dowers and other Tenements.'

Kel. 125. Fitz. Bar. 149, 294.

2 Inst. 80.

Note : this act is listed in the Chronological Table of Statutes as the Widow's Bequest of Corn on her Land Act, 1235