Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court July 15, 1817 (Davol v. Howland)

Parker, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court. The point presented by the pleadings is, that the husband of the demandant, although seised of the land in which dower is claimed during the coverture, had alienated it before the decree of divorce took place; and the legal inference attempted to be drawn is, that the wife is *192not dowable, but of lands of which the husband continues seised