(n.) the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands.
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Curtsy
Definition:
(n.) Same as Courtesy, an act of respect.
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(1) Governor General Quentin Bryce, the monarch's representative in Australia and the first woman to fill the role, had greeted the Queen by curtsying.
(2) The prime minister, Julia Gillard, who argues the Queen should be Australia's last monarch, and the chief minister, Katy Gallagher, the head of the Australian Capital Territory government, were questioned by reporters about why they had not curtsied when they greeted the Queen on her arrival.
(3) And superficial as it might seem, the fact that our prime minister didn't curtsy in front of the Queen , instead making some sort of strange bob motion, does say something.
(4) Meanwhile, the man whose tiny hand May held in hers (something even his wife won’t do ) as she helped him down a ramp – one of the several things Trump is reputedly terrified of – has been curtsying to the Saudi king .
(5) Nobody, as yet, has bowed or curtsied to them on the high street.
(6) If he doesn't actually curtsy it's only because chaps don't.
(7) During the garden party, most guests curtsied and bowed, although one Texan congressman apparently shouted at the monarch: "Hi-ya, Cousin George!"