 | Oregon - Law - 1892 - 1182 pages
...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 thereof by the curtesy, although such husband and wife may not have had issue born alive. Curtesy attaches... | |
 | Leonard Shelford, Thomas Henry Carson - Land tenure - 1893 - 944 pages
...her issue, born alive, which was capable of inheriting her estate. In this case the husband shall, on the death of his wife, hold the lands for his life, as tenant by the curtesy of England (Litt. ss. 35, 52 ; 2 Bl. Comm. 126). And it seems that a husband may become tenant... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1893 - 558 pages
...und 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 the lands for his life, as tenant by the curtesy of England. As soon as any child was born, the father began to have a permanent interest in... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 640 pages
...and has by her issue born alive, which was capable of inheriting her estate. In such case he shall, on the death of his wife, hold the lands for his life, a? tenant by curtesy. There are four requisites to make a tenant by curtesy, viz : Marriage, seisin... | |
 | Edward Douglas Armour - Abstracts of title - 1894 - 466 pages
...and has by her issue born alive, which is capable of inheriting her estate. In this case he shall, on the death of his wife, hold the lands for his life, as tenant by the curtesy of England (6). There are four requisites, namely, marriage, seisin of the wife, issue, and... | |
 | Arthur Pearson Luff - 1895 - 410 pages
...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 the lands for his life as tenant by the courtesy of England.' This tenancy is, in contested cases, generally established or disproved by medical... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 pages
...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 the lands for his life, as tenant by the curtesy of England. As soon as any child was bom, the father began to have a permanent interest in... | |
 | William Champ Rodgers - Domestic relations - 1899 - 1052 pages
...Bl. Comm. 126. issue born alive, which was capable of inheriting her estate. In this case he shall, on the death of his wife, hold the lands for his life as tenant by the curtesy of England." 1 The estate being a part and parcel of the common law is in force in all the... | |
 | George Washington Kirchwey - Real property - 1900 - 596 pages
...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 the lands for his life, as tenant by the curtesy of England. This estate, according to Littleton, has its denomination, because it is used within... | |
 | Samuel Crocker Bennett - Wills - 1900 - 68 pages
...lands, and they have had issue born alive which might have inherited such estate, the husband shall on the death of his wife hold the lands for his life as a tenant thereof by the curtesy. If they have had no such issue he shall hold for his life one half... | |
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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... 
