The right of the widow is also called her quarantine. In some, perhaps all the states of the United States, provision has been expressly made by statute securing to the widow this right for a greater or lesser space of time in Massachusetts and New York, the widow is entitled to the mansion house for forty days. In Ohio, for one year. In Pennsylvania the statute of 9 Hen. In Massachusetts the widow is entitled to support for forty days in North Carolina for one year.
Quarantine is a personal right, forfeited by implication of law, by a second marriage.