§ 190. Dower. When the parties intermarried prior to the first day of
September, nineteen hundred and thirty, a widow shall be endowed of the
third part of all the lands whereof her husband was prior to the first
day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty, seized of an estate of
inheritance, at any time during the marriage. Except as hereinbefore
provided, after the thirty-first day of August, nineteen hundred and
thirty, no inchoate right of dower shall be possessed by a wife during
coverture, and no widow shall be endowed, in any lands whereof her
husband became seized of an estate of inheritance.