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Husband's common-law right
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curtesy
Word definitions for curtesy in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Curtesy \Cur"te*sy\ (k?r"t?-s?), n.; pl. Curtesies (-s?z). [Either fr. courlesy, the lands being held as it were by favor; or fr. court (LL. curtis), the husband being regarded as holding the lands as a vassal of the court. See Court , Courtesy .] (Law) ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The tenure that a man is entitled to over the property of his deceased wife if there is a child who could inherit it.
Usage examples of curtesy.
Making a curtesy, Elsy left the parlor, and entered the room pointed out by Emily.
May 8th, the Master of the Rolls his curtesy, thowgh I had never spoken unto him.
They stood all waiting with such a venerate attention, that when the seruice was brought to the table, they all at one instant time alike, made their reuerent curtesies in bowing of their knees, and in like manner when they did rise from of their seates, euerie one apparrelled in cloth of Golde, but they did not sit and eate at the same table.
Jubal let it go on until every newsman there knew more than he wanted to know about dower and curtesy, consanguinean and uterine, per stirpes and per capita, and related mysteries.