This is either a writ of dower unde nihil habet. which lies for a widow, commanding the tenant to as-sign her dower, no part of which has yet been set off to her; or a writ of right of dower, whereby she seeks to recover the re-mainder of the dower to wbich she is enti-tled, part having been already received from the tenant
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
