cui in vita

cui in vita (kI [or kwIor kwee] in vI-t[schwa]). [Law Latin “to whom in the life”] Hist. A writ of entry enabling a woman to recover land that she had held in fee but that her deceased husband had sold without her permission. • It is so called from the words of the writ: cui ipsa in vita sua contradicere non potuit (“whom she, in his lifetime, could not gainsay”).

— Also termed sur cui in vita.

“Cui in vita, is a writ of entry, which a Widow hath against him, to whom her Husband alienated her Lands or Tenements in his life time, which must specifie, that During his life, she could not withstand it.” Thomas Blount, Nomo-Lexicon: A Law-Dictionary (1670).


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