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Curtesy tenure
Curtesy tenure is the legal term denoting the life interest which a widower may claim in the lands of his deceased wife, under certain conditions. The tenure relates only to those lands of which his wife was in her lifetime actually seised and not therefore to an estate of inheritance. The customs and the meaning of the word has considerable doubt. It has been said to be a tenure peculiar to England and to Scotland, hence called the curtesy of England and the curtesy of Scotland, yet this is erroneous, for it is found also in Germany and France. The Mirroir des Justices ascribes its introduction to King Henry I. The historian K.E. Digby states it to be connected with curia, having reference either to the attendance of the husband as tenant of the lands at the lord's court, or to mean simply that the husband is acknowledged tenant by the courts of England. The requisites necessary to create a tenancy by curtesy are: ⁕A legal marriage must have existed; ⁕The estate claimed in curtesy must have been an estate in possession of which the wife must have been actually seised; and, ⁕Issue must have existed born alive and during the mother's existence, though it is immaterial whether the issue subsequently live or die, or whether it is born before or after the wife's seisin.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of curtesy tenure in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of curtesy tenure in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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