cui ante divortium

cui ante divortium (kI [or kwIor kwee] an-tee d[schwa]-vor-shee-[schwa]m). [Law Latin “to whom before divorce”] Hist. A writ of entry enabling a divorced woman to recover land that she had held in fee but that her husband had sold without her permission during the marriage. • The name of this writ derives from the words within it: cui ipsa ante divortium inter eos celebratum, contradicere non potuit (“whom she, before the divorce between them, could not gainsay”). The writ was abolished in 1833. — Also termed sur cui ante divortium.

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