equity for a settlement

equity for a settlement
A married woman's right, recognized and enforced by courts of equity, for a suitable allowance or a settlement out of her choses in action, interest in a decedent's estate, and other personalty which at common law became the property of her husband when he reduced them into his possession. 26 Am J1st H & W § 48.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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