§667-9 Dower barred, when. If the mortgage was executed by a man having at the time no lawful wife, or if the mortgagor being married, his wife joined in the deed in token of her release of dower, the sale of the property in the mode aforesaid shall be effectual to bar all claim and possibility of dower in the property. [L 1874, c 33, §3; RL 1925, §2882; RL 1935, §4727; RL 1945, §12427; RL 1955, §336-8; HRS §667-9; am L 1972, c 90, §9(h)]