A species of life-estate which a woman ls, by law, entitled to clalm on the death of her husband, in the lands and tenements of whlch he was seised in fee during the marriage, and which, her issue, lf any, might hy possibility have inherited. 1 Steph. Comm. 249 ; 2 Bl. Comm. 129; Cruise, Dig. tit 6; 2 Crabb, Real Prop, p. 124, | 1117; 4 Kent, Comm. 35. See Dowbb