Michigan Compiled Laws

Mich. Comp. Laws § 558.29 (2026)

Collusive recovery by widow; effect on rights of infants or others entitled to land.

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Revised Statutes of 1846


R.S. of 1846


558.29 Collusive recovery by widow; effect on rights of infants or others entitled to land.

Sec. 29.

    When a widow not having right to dower, shall during the infancy of the heirs of the husband, or any of them, or of any person entitled to the lands, recover dower by the default or collusion of the guardian of such infant, heir or other person, such heir or other person so entitled shall not be prejudiced thereby, but when he comes of full age, he shall have an action against such widow, to recover the lands so wrongfully awarded for dower.

History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 66 ;-- CL 1857, 2800 ;-- CL 1871, 4297 ;-- How. 5761 ;-- CL 1897, 8946 ;-- CL 1915, 11678 ;-- CL 1929, 13096 ;-- CL 1948, 558.29