Section 28-11-403 - Devise or bequest - Election of spouse

If land is devised to a spouse, or a pecuniary or other provision is made for a spouse by will in lieu of dower or curtesy, the spouse shall make an election whether he or she will take the land so devised, or the provision so made, or whether he or she will be endowed of the lands of the other spouse.Rev. Stat., ch. 52, § 13; C. & M. Dig., § 3526; Pope's Dig., § 4410; Acts 1981, No. 714, § 35; A.S.A. 1947, § 61-218.