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Definition of Curtesy
1. n. the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands.
Definition of Curtesy
1. Noun. The tenure that a man is entitled to over the property of his deceased wife if there is a child who could inherit it. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Curtesy
1. a type of legal tenure [n -SIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curtesy
Literary usage of Curtesy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"There are four requisites necessary to make a tenancy by the curtesy; marriage,
... And therefore a man shall not be tenant by the curtesy of a remainder or ..."
2. A Treatise on the American Law of Real Property by Emory Washburn, Joseph Willard, Simon Greenleaf Croswell (1887)
"curtesy by equity. 3. Origin of the estate. 4. curtesy now generally disused.
... curtesy in determinable fees. 14,15. curtesy in equitable estates settled ..."
3. A Digest of the Laws of England Respecting Real Property by William Cruise, Henry Hopley White (1835)
"An equity of redemption of an estate in fee simple which is mortgaged in fee, or
for years, has been decreed to be subject to curtesy ; of which an account ..."
4. The Law of Real Property: (based on Minor's Institutes) by Raleigh C. Minor, John Wurts, John Barbee Minor (1909)
"Definition of Estate by the curtesy. 209. Origin of the Estate by the curtesy.
... Seisin in Fact (Actual or Constructive) Usually Required for curtesy. ..."
5. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"D.40. vision, or limitation, or condition, though she have a fee by a subsequent
remainder, or by descent, her husband shall not be tenant by the curtesy. ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Husband and Wife, as Respects Property: Partly by John Edward Bright, b, Roper Stote Donnison Roper, Edward Jacob (1849)
"No curtesy of reversion on estate for life. 9. Effect when contingent remainders
interposed between estate for life and reversion. 10. ..."
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