right to maintain an action to protect her future right of action. Indeed, the inchoate right of dower is considered present, fixed, vested, and valuable.”); 28 C.J.S. Dower and Curtesy § 54 (2010) (“It is generally held that the inchoate right of dower is not an estate, or title, or interest in land, and that it confers upon the wife no right of possession or control of the land to which it attaches, but instead is rather a contingent claim or right, or chose of action, or expectancy, which will ripen into an estate in case the husband dies first, but which will be lost if she dies before the husband. The right is nevertheless regarded, at least under some authorities, as fixed and vested in some senses, and which the courts will protect.”). See also 2 Tiffany Real PROP. § 500 (2010) (<HOLDING>). These authorities suggest that while Mary
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