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Jointure made after marriage, unless by act of Parliament, may be refused after husbands death, and dower demanded.
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VIII. Provided also, that if any wife have, or hereafter shall have any mannors, lands, tenements or hereditaments, unto her given or assigned after the marriage, for terme of her life, or otherwise in joynture, except the same assurance be to her made by act of Parliament, and the said wife, after that fortune to over-live the same her husband, in whose time the said joynture was made or assured unto her, that then the same wife so over-living, shall and may at her libertie, after the death of her said late husband, refuse to have and take the lands and tenements so to her given, appointed or assured during the coverture for terme of her life, or otherwise in joynture; except the same assurance be to her made by act of Parliament, as is aforesaid, and thereupon to have, ask, demaund, and take her dower by writ of dower, or otherwise, according to the common law, of and in all such lands, tenements and hereditaments, as her husband was and flood seized of any estate of inheritance, at any time dureing the coverture; any thing contained in this act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
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