 | 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... | |
 | United States - 1900 - 626 pages
...his wife shall be seized 2 in her right of any estate of inheritance in lands the husband 3 shall, on the death of his wife, hold the lands for his life as 4 tenant thereof by the curtesy, although such husband and wife 5 may not have had issue born alive.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles Theodore Boone - Real property - 1901 - 652 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."4 The interest of a tenant by the curtesy is a legal estate in the land for the... | |
 | United States - Law - 1901 - 934 pages
...wife shall be seized in her right of 5 estate by any çy^g 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. CHAPTER NINE.... | |
 | Thomas Henry Carson, Harold B. Bompas - Real property - 1902 - 1046 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. 12(3). Aud it seems that a husband may become tenant... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1294 pages
...and his wife shall be seized in her right of any estate or inheritance in lands, the husband shall, on the death of his wife, hold the lands for his life, as tenant thereof by curtesy." Nothing in the bill of exceptions or the pleadings shows the age of John Withnell... | |
 | William Albert Finch - Real property - 1904 - 1398 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. 2 Black. Com. 126; Steph. Com. 24; i Lomax, 65-6. Whether this estate is a consequence of... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1216 pages
...and his wife shall be seised in her right to 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," etc. This declaration does not differ from the common-law definitions of estates... | |
 | Franklin A. Beecher - Wills - 1911 - 492 pages
...and his wife shall be seized 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, provided that if the wife, at her death shall leave issue by any former husband, to whom the... | |
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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... 
