Note 354 — TENANT TO THE COURTESEY.
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If a woman seized of lands in fee taketh husband, and by him is bigge with childe, and in her travel dieth, and the childe is ripped out of her body alive, yet shall he not be tenant by the curtesie; because the childe was not born during the marriage, nor in the lifetime of the wife, but in the meane time the land descended, and in pleading he must alledge that he had issue during the marriage. Co. Litt. 30.