{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clandestine-mortgages-act-1692/section-IV",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clandestine-mortgages-act-1692/section-IV.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/4/16",
  "legislation_title": "Clandestine Mortgages Act 1692",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clandestine-mortgages-act-1692",
  "path": "section/IV",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "IV",
  "heading": "Proviso for Dower.",
  "text": "Provided always that nothing in this Act contained shall be construed deemed or extended to bar any Widow of any Mortgager of Lands or Tenements from her Dower and Right in or to the said Lands who did not legally join with her Husband in such Mortgage or otherwise lawfully bar or exclude her selfe from such her Dower or Right.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Mortgagor O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/4/16/section/IV",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:24:18.005998+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}