Usually means: Husband's rights in wife's property.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word curtesy:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. curtesy: Merriam-Webster
  2. curtesy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. curtesy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. curtesy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. curtesy: Wordnik
  6. curtesy: Wiktionary
  7. curtesy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. curtesy: Dictionary.com
  9. Curtesy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Curtesy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. curtesy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Curtesy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. curtesy: FreeDictionary.org
  14. curtesy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. curtesy: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. curtesy: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. curtesy: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Curtesy: DivorceNet.com (Annotated Divorce Law Dictionary)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Curtesy: Investopedia
  9. Curtesy: Legal dictionary
  10. curtesy: Financial dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (curtesy)

▸ noun:  The tenure that a man is entitled to over the property of his deceased wife if there is a child who could inherit it.

Similar:
courtesy, jointure, remaindership, dower, inheritance, terce, free bench, bequest, maritage, secundogeniture, more...

Opposite:
rudeness, impoliteness, discourtesy

Types:
bowing, nodding, waving, hand-shaking, smiling, more...

Adjectives:
low, common, little, deep, customary, mutilated, much, profound, time, graceful, mock

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Similar:
courtesy, jointure, remaindership, dower, inheritance, terce, free bench, bequest, maritage, secundogeniture, more...

Opposite:
rudeness, impoliteness, discourtesy

Types:
bowing, nodding, waving, hand-shaking, smiling, more...

Adjectives:
low, common, little, deep, customary, mutilated, much, profound, time, graceful, mock

Colors:
    lavender,     blush pink,     soft peach,     pastel blue,     mint green, more...



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