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单词 courtesy of england or of scotland
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courtesy (curtesy) of England or of Scotland
a. A tenure by which a husband, after his wife's death, holds certain kinds of property which she has inherited, the conditions varying with the nature of the property. More fully called courtesy (curtesy) of England or of Scotland.The most common instance is that in which the husband holds for life estates of which the wife in her lifetime has been seised in fee-simple or fee-tail, provided there has been lawful issue of the marriage able to inherit.
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Borough-English1327
parage1450
courtesy1523
homage ancestral?1538
borough-kind1577
tanistrya1599
borough-tenurea1670
parentage1728
curiality1861
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xi. f. 12 Tenauntes by the curtesy, tenauntes in dower.
1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xv. f. xxxviiv No man shall be tenaunt by the curtesye of lande without hys wyfe haue possessyon in dede.
?1530 St. German's Dyaloge Doctoure & Student vii. f. xvi To holde as tenaunt by the curtysye of Englande.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem Table 73 Curtesie of Scotland, is quhen ane man mareis ane heretrice of lands: procreates vpon hir ane quick barne, maill, or female: And it happens the woman onlie, or beath the woman and the bairne, to deceise.
1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 98v.
1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent iv. 42 The husband shall be Tenant by the Curtesy of a Moiety.
1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. ii. ix. 221 A marriage, tho' of the longest continuance, gives no right to the courtesy, if there was no issue of it.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 158 (heading) Origin of Estates by the Curtesy, and Circumstances required to their Existence..Curtesy in Gavel-kind.
1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 155/1 The wife's equitable inheritances are subject to courtesy.
1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. iii. 122 An estate by the curtesy of England.
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