curtesy consummate
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 276 U.S. 58 - Marlin v. Lewallen · 1928Most cited · 60 citing opinions
curtesy consummate only where the wife died seized of the land and intestate
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “curtesy consummate” — 60 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.