Note 161 — Book VI.

Tempore matrimonii is the expression of the Grand Norman Custumary, (c. 102.) and of the Regiam Majestatem (L. 2. c. 16.) and die quo eam desponsavit is the language of Bracton (92. a.) and Fleta (L. 5. c. 24.) notwithstanding that the 7th chapter of Magna Carta enlarged the widow’s claim to a third part of all such lands as the Husband is seised of in vita sua or, as it has been translated, during the coverture; and thus it has stood ever since, though not without having been materially encroached upon, by the comparatively modern doctrine of Trusts.