I forgot to put in an additional question under primogeniture. I suggested that a widow had no dower right to land at all in the following paragraph: "In both cases if she wanted a place to live she was at the mercy of friends and relatives, unless she had other assets (or funds from sale of slaves, etc.) that allowed her to support herself, pay rent as a tenant, etc." But I should have added an "OR" at the end -- Or, did she have a 1/3 dower right to 1/3 of her husband's landholdings. that allowed her to live on that land, but only during her natural life, at which time it reverted to the eldest male heir, unless the disposition of the land in question was otherwise directed in a will. Thanks in advance. Janet