See also:

• CURTESY (a variant of " courtesy," q.v.)

CURTESY (a variant of " See also:

• COURTESY (O. Fr. curtesie, later courtoisie)

courtesy," q.v.)  , in See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, the See also:

• LIFE

life See also:

• INTEREST

interest which a See also:

• HUSBAND

husband has in certain events in the lands of which his wife was in her lifetime actually seised for an See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate of See also:

• INHERITANCE

inheritance . As to the See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical origin of the See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom and the meaning of the word there is considerable doubt . It has been said to be an interest See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England and to See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland, hence called the "See also:

• CURTESY (a variant of " courtesy," q.v.)

curtesy of England" and the "curtesy of Scotland "; but this is erroneous, for it is found also in See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany and See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France . The Mirroir See also:

• DES

des Justices ascribes it to See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry I . K . E . See also:

• DIGBY, KENELM HENRY (1800-188o)
• DIGBY, SIR EVERARD (1578-1606)
• DIGBY, SIR KENELM (1603-1665)

Digby (Hist . Real Prop. See also:

• CHAP

chap. iii.) says that it is connected with See also:

• CURIA

curia, and has reference either to the attendance of the husband as See also:

• TENANT (from Lat. tenere, to hold)

tenant of the lands at the See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

lord's See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court, or to mean simply that the husband is acknowledged tenant by the courts of England (tenens per legem Angliae) . The requisites necessary to make tenancy by the curtesy are: (1) a legal See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage; (2.) an estate in See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession of which the wife must have been actually seised; (3) issue See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born alive and during the See also:

• MOTHER

mother's existence, though it is immaterial whether the issue live or See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die, or whether it is born before or after the wife's See also:

• SEISIN (from M. Eng. saysen, seysen, in the legal sense of to put in possession of, or to take possession of, hence, to grasp, to seize; the O. Fr. seisir, saisir, is from Low Lat. satire, generally referred to the same source as Goth. satjan, O. Eng. set

seisin; in the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case of See also:

• GAVELKIND

gavelkind lands the husband has a right to curtesy, whether there is issue born or not; but the curtesy extends only to a moiety of the wife's lands and ceases if the husband marries again . The issue must have been capable of inheriting as See also:

• HEIR (Lat. heres, from a root meaning to grasp, seen in heres or erus, master of a house, Gr. xeip, hand, Sans. hat ana, hand)

heir to the wife, e.g. if a wife were seised of lands in tail male the See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth of a daughter would not entitle the husband to a tenancy by curtesy; (4) the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title to the tenancy vests only on the See also:

• DEATH

death of the wife . The Married See also:

• WOMEN

Women's See also:

• PROPERTY

Property See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act 1882 has not affected the right of curtesy so far as relates to the wife's undisposed-of realty (See also:

• HOPE, ANTHONY
• HOPE, THOMAS (c. 1770-1831)

Hope v . Hope, 1892, 2 Ch .

336), and the Settled See also:

• LAND

Land Act 1884, s . 8, provides that for the purposes of the Settled Land Act 1882 the estate of a tenant by curtesy is to be deemed an estate arising under a See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement made by the wife . See See also:

• POLLOCK

Pollock and See also:

• MAITLAND (MAITLAND OF LETHINGTON), WILLIAM
• MAITLAND, EAST
• MAITLAND, EDWARD (1824-1897)
• MAITLAND, FREDERIC WILLIAM (1850-1906)
• MAITLAND, SIR RICHARD (LORD LETHINGTON) (1496-r586)

Maitland, Hist . Eng . Law; K . E . Digby, Hist . Real Prop . ; Goodeve, Real Property .