Note 1487 — Chapter XVI · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF MARRIAGE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903 (continued 2)

Ibid., sec. 710, p. 171; according to the amendment of March 30, 1874: Amendments to Codes (1873-74), 218. This provision "leaves no doubt but that the limitation of an estate to a widow so long as she remains unmarried is good;" and the "rules which govern a devise in restraint of a widow's marriage, apply to like devise in restraint of a widower's marriage: Bostwick v. Blades, 4 Am. Law Rec., 729 (Md. Ct. of App.)." See Editor Deering's valuable note in Codes and Stat., II, 171, where cases are cited.