OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
opinion twbt me term -uf.re* 8ad Uldow” de
not inalude a woman vho has been dttomed ?rom her husband.
web8tor’u lievIntornstioAaZDlatioauy, boaosldEd%t1on,
definer the term “vldov u riamf8:
ErmoPable Ohar, W, Ca8tner, page 2
"A wnsan vho hnr loat her humband br death;
the resale rurriror of a marital union. A uowxn
vho ha8 not remarried after the death of her hua-
band."
The reoognired definition of the vord vldou ir a woman
vbo barnlost her hurband by death1 a rife that outlived her hw-
band. Cole t. Ilnxne.122 Fed. 836. 839.
muaning of the word ridov la a wrrled
The ordl.nary
vow&n v&me husband ir dead. Heton 1. State rndurtrlal laaur-
awe Demrtment. 177 Pao. 6%.TR. 104 Warh. b52.
The vordridmf BIUMI a vomanwho has loeth%r hwband
by death, and ha8 no appllaatlon to a dLvoroe& voman. O'xSllOf
v. OWallej, l29 Pao. 501, 502, 16 Moot. 549, Annotated bsaer
19l'?B,62.
. Ukeulse, the term ulfe doas not lnulude a vuwn Qi-
wed. jbadr v. UeddXe. 8 Id, 297. 299. 44 Ohlo St. 442.
'2&~t+mn wife doer not mean mimply that a woman bar
been -Led, but that rhe Pa then and there a nwnied woman.
ICmreat. Mate, '50II.E. 401, 20 Xad. App. 168.
,, APPROVhQ MAY 31, 1941
ATTORNEY Qm.