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Gui Ante Dtvortium

(To whom before divorce.) A writ for’ a woman di-vorced from her hnsband to recover her lands and tenements which she had in fee-simple or in tail, or for life, from him to whom her husband alienated them during the marriage, when she could not gainsay It. Reg. orig. 233

Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)