Tenant by the curtesy of Eugland is where a man survives a wife who was seised in fee-simple or fee-tail of lands or tenements, and has had issue male or female by her bom alive and capable of inheriting the wife’s estate as heir to her; in which case he will, on the decease of his wife, hold the estate during hie life as tenant by the curtesy of England. 2 Crabb, Real Prop. $ 1074
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
