*1 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 liev IntornstioAaZ Dlatioauy, boaosld Ed%t1on, u riamf8: definer the term “vldov
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"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 barn lost her hurband by death1 a rife that outlived her hw- band. Cole t. Ilnxne. 122 Fed. 836. 839.
The ordl.nary muaning of the word ridov la a wrrled 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. ICmrea t. Mate, '50 II. E. 401, 20 Xad. App. 168.
,, APPROVhQ MAY 31, 1941
ATTORNEY Qm.