Completed; as distiu-guished from initiate, or that which is mere-ly begun. Tbe husband of a woman seised of an estate of inheritance becomes, by the birth of a child, tenant by the curtesy i»-itiate, and may do many acts to charge the lands, but his estate is not consummate till the death of the wife. 2 Bl. Comm. 126,128; Co. Litt. 30a
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
