cui ante divortium

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
CUI ANTE DIVORTIUM. The name of an ancient writ, which was issued in favor 
of a woman divorced from her husband, to recover the lands and tenements 
which she had in fee simple, or in tail, or for life, from him to whom her 
husband alienated them during the marriage, when she could not gainsay it. 
F. N. B. 240. Vide Sur cui ante divortium. 
    

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