(1) The right which a husband has in his wife's estate at her death. (2) The estate to which, by common law, a man is entitled, on the death of his wife, in the lands or tenements of which she is seized in possession in fee-simple or in tail during her coverture, provided they have had lawful issue born alive which might be capable of inheriting the estate. It is a freehold estate for the term of his natural life.