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Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Edition (1856)

QUARANTINE, commerce, crim. law. The space of forty days, or a less quantity
of time, during which the crew of a ship or vessel coming from a port or
place infected or supposed to be infected with disease, are required to
remain on board after their arrival, before they can be permitted to land.
2. The object of the quarantine is to ascertain whether the crew are
infected or not.
3. To break the quarantine without legal authority is a misdemeanor. 1
Russ. on Cr. 133.
4. In cases of insurance of ships, the insurer is responsible when the
insurance extends to her being moored in port 24 hours in safety, although
she may have arrived, if before the 24 hours are expired she is ordered to
perform quarantine, if any accident contemplated by the policy occur 1
Marsh. on Ins. 264.


QUARANTINE, inheritances, rights. The space of forty days during which a
widow has a right to remain in her late husband's principal mansion,
immediately after his death. The right of the widow is also called her
quarantine.
2. 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, Mass. Rev. St. 411, and
New York, 4 Kent, Com. 62, the widow is entitled to the mansion house for
forty days. In Ohio, for one year, Walk. Intr. 231, 324. In Alabama,
Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, New Jersey, Rhode Island and
Virginia, she may occupy till dower is assigned; in Indiana, Illinois,
Kentucky, Missouri, New Jersey and Virginia, she may also occupy the
plantation or messuage. In Pennsylvania the statute of 9 Hen. III., c. 7, is
in force, Rob. Dig. 176, by which it is declared that "a widow shall tarry
in the chief house of her husband forty days after his death, within which,
her dower shall be assigned her." In Massachusetts the widow is entitled to
support for forty days in North Carolina for one year.
3. Quarantine is a personal right, forfeited by implication of law, by
a second marriage. Co. Litt. 82. See Ind. Rev. L. 209; 1 Virg. Rev. C. 170,;
Ala. L. 260; Misso. St. 229; Ill. Rev. L. 237; N. J. Rev. C. 397 1 Ken. Rev.
L. 573. See Bac. Ab. Dower, B; Co. Litt. 32, b; Id, 34, b 2 Inst. 16, 17.