 | Charles Erehart Chadman - Law - 1912 - 624 pages
...fee-simple or fee- tail; and has by her issue, born alive, which was capable of inheriting her estate. In this case, he shall, on the death of his wife,...for his life, as tenant by the curtesy of England. (c) This estate, according to Littleton, has its denomination, because it is used within the realm... | |
 | Roscoe Pound - Common law - 1913 - 660 pages
...fee-simple or fee-tail, and has by her issue, born alive, which was capable of inheriting her estate. In this case, he shall on the death of his wife, hold...for his life, as tenant by the curtesy of England. . . . There are four requisities necessary to make a tenancy by the curtesy; marriage, seisin of the... | |
 | Thomas Johnson Michie - Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 832 pages
...inheritance in lands, and has by her issue born alive, which was capable of inheriting her estate, he shall on the death of his wife, hold the lands for his life as tenant by the curtesy. Z Bla. Com. 126; Step. Com. 246; 1 Lomax, 65-6. Whether this estate is a ' consequence of feudal tenure,... | |
 | Richard Hays Hawkins - Real property - 1915 - 400 pages
...fee simple or fee tail, and has by her issue, born alive, which was capable of inheriting her estate. In this case, he shall, on the death of his wife,...for his life, as tenant by the curtesy of England. The estate was initiate upon the birth of issue and consummate, though the child died in five minutes... | |
 | Harry Augustus Bigelow, Joseph Warren Madden - Real property - 1919 - 886 pages
...simple or fee tail ; and has by her issue, born alive, which was capable of inheriting her estate. In this case he shall, on the death of his wife hold...for his life, as tenant by the curtesy of England. * * * "There are four requisites necessary to make a tenancy by the curtesy: Marriage, seisin of the... | |
 | Sister Miriam Theresa - Women - 1924 - 172 pages
...any man and his wife shall be seised in her right of any estate of inheritance in lands, the husband shall, on the death of his wife, hold the lands for his life, as tenant by the curtesy although such husband and wife may not have had issue born alive". But a forward step was taken by... | |
 | Law - 1903 - 1240 pages
...issue born alive which might Inherit the same, Ind.) вб NORTHEASTERN REPORTER. (Ind. the husband shall, on the death of his wife, hold the lands for his life, as tenant thereof by the curtesy." Rev. St 1843, p. 440. And It was held that the married woman's act of 1847... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1979 - 569 pages
...and has by her iffue, born alive, which was capable of inheriting her eftate. In this cafe, he mail, on the death of his wife, hold the lands for his life, as tenant by the curtefy of England c. THIS eftate, according to Littleton, has it's denomination, becaufe it is ufed... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Law - 1998 - 1126 pages
...[L. Lat. curialitas, curialitas Anglicana ; lex Angliœ ; curtesia : L. Fr. curtesie Dengleterre.] An estate to which a man is by law entitled, on the...life, as tenant by the curtesy of England. Id. ibid. 2 El. Com. 12 6. Bract, fol. 438. Litt. sect. 35. Co. Litt. 29 b. It is a species of freehold estate,... | |
 | Henry James Holthouse - Law - 1999 - 504 pages
...her issue born alive, which was capable of inheriting her estate; in this case he shall, on the death his wife, hold the lands for his life as tenant by the curlesy of England.—Lit. 35, 52; 2 BL 126. CURTILAGE (curlilaginm, from the Tr. cour, court, and... | |
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Tenant by the curtesy of England is where a man marries a woman seised of an estate of inheritance, that is, of lands and tenements in fee-simple or feetail, and has by her issue, born alive, which was capable of inheriting her estate. In this case, he... 
