Note 515 — Book XIV.
John Beames translation
“And yet not of all the wives, but of her only who lieth between his arms, which is as much as to say, in whose seisin he was murdered; for if he had many wives, and all were alive at the time of his murder, nevertheless she only is admitted to bring the appeal of all the rest, whom he last took to wife; and the reason thereof is, because it belongeth not to the Temporal Court to try who was his wife of right, and which, in fact, and the appeals of all others are to be suspended, pendant the same appeal brought” (Mirror c. 2. s. 7. See also Bracton 125. a. Fleta L. 1. c. 35. and 2 Inst. 316.)