JUS RELICTI

jus relicti (j<<schwa>>s ri-lik-tI), n.[Law Latin “right of a widower”] Civil & Scots law. A widower’s right in his deceased wife’s separate movable estate, historically two-thirds if there were surviving children, and otherwise one-half. Under the Married Women’s Property Act of 1881, the amount became one-third in the case of surviving children, and otherwise one-half.

[Blacks Law 8th]