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Consummate

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Co.mpleted; as distinguished from initiate or that which ls merely begun. The husband of a woman seised of an estate of inheritance becomes, by the birth of a child, tenant by the curtesy initiate, and may do many acts to charge the lands, but his estate ls not consummate till the death of the wlfe.

2 Bl. Comm. 126, 1281 Co. Litt 30a.