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SECTION 193

Dower in lands mortgaged for purchase-money

Real Property (RPP) CHAPTER 50, ARTICLE 6

§ 193. Dower in lands mortgaged for purchase-money. Where a husband
purchases lands during the marriage, and at the same time mortgages his
estate in those lands to secure the payment of the purchase-money, his
widow is not entitled to dower of those lands, as against the mortgagee
or those claiming under him, although she did not unite in the mortgage.
She is entitled to her dower as against every other person.