29^ C O U 
gin by the iffue, and be confummate by the death of the 
wife, and the eftate of tenant by the curtefy (hould avoid 
the immediate.defcent. Ibid. A man fhal 1 not be tenant' 
by the curtefy of a bare right, title, ufe, reverfipn, &c. 
expectant upohan eftate of freehold, unlefs the particu¬ 
lar eftate is determined during the coverture ; nor of a 
feifin in law : but if a wife dies before a rent becomes 
due; or in the cafe of .an advowfon, before the church 
becomes void ; the hufband fhalbbe tenant by the curte¬ 
fy, though the wife had only a feifin in law ; for in this 
cafe no other feifin could be attained. F.N.B.i^.Co. 
Lit. 29. 30. 40. 
Though in ftridtnefs of law there^cannot be curtefy of 
trvjls, yet fince lord Coke’s'time our courts of equity 
have allowed curtefy, both of trufts and other interefts. 
which though in law mere rights and titles are deemed 
cftates in equity ; and made to conform to many of the 
rules;and confequences incident to eftates in law. See in 
1 Atk. 603, the cafe of Cafhborn v. Inglifh, in which 
Hardwicke C. decreed curtefy of an equity of redemp¬ 
tion. See S. C. more fully reported in Via. tit. curtfy, E. 
’ pi. 23. However, a wife may in point of benefit have a 
truft of inheritance, which may be fo declared as to pre¬ 
vent curtefy ; as by directing the profits during the wife’s 
life to be paid for her feparate ufe ; for in fuch cafe the 
intention to exclude the hufband from curtefy is manifeft, 
and he cannot have an equitable feifin. 3 Atk. 715. It is 
alfo proper to remark that though curtefy out of a truft 
is allowed, yet dower lias been refilled ; a diftindtion not 
eafily reconcilable with reafon, however fettled by the 
current of authorities. 1 Ivjl. 29 a. n. 6. 
As to curtefy in titles and offices of honour, fee 1 Injl. 
29b. and Mr. Hargrave’s learned notes there, by which 
it feems that no fuch curtefy can take place ; though the 
queftion appears not to be fettled, a decifion having been 
repeatedly avoided thereon. There is no tenancy by 
the curtefy of copyhold lands, except there be a fpecial 
cuftom for it. But in gavelkind lands, a hufband may 
be tenant by the curtefy without having iffue. 1 Injl. 30. 
But it is only of a moiety of the wife’s land, and ceafes if 
■the hufband marries again. Robinf. Gavelk. 1.2. c.i. 
Where a hufband is entitled to this tenancy, if after the 
wife is an ideot, and her eftate in the land found ; when 
flie dies, he fhall not be tenant by the curtefy, for the 
Icing’s title by relation prevents it. Plcwd. 263. If the 
wife be feifed in fee of lands, and attaint of felony, but 
have ilfue by her hufband, and lhe is hanged, &c. it is 
laid the hufband fhall be a tenant by the curtefy : but 
yet the land will be forfeited; according to Kitc/i. 159. 
21 Ed. III. 49. 
A woman feifed of land had two daughters, and cove¬ 
nanted to ftand feifed to the ufe of E. her eldeft daugh¬ 
ter in tail; on condition that lhe fliould pay to her othpr 
-daughter within a certain time three hundred pounds. 
And if E. made default, or died without iffue before 
fuch payment, then the land to go to the fecond daugh¬ 
ter ; the mother dying, E took a hufband, and had iffue, 
and died afterwards without any iffue living, before the 
day of payment: it was here held, that her hufband 
fhould be tenant by the curtefy. 1 Leon. ca. 233. See 
Kitc/i. 159. 
To COUR'TESY, v. n. To perform an adt of reve¬ 
rence : it is now only ujed of women .—Toby approaches, 
and court]'fees there to me. Shakcjpcare. —To make a reve¬ 
rence in the manner of ladies : 
If I (hould meet her in my way, 
We hardly court'fy to each other. Prior. 
-COURTHEZON') a town of France, in the depart- 
-rnent of the Mouths of the Rhone, and chief place of a 
canton, in the diftridt of Orange; fituated on the Seille, 
and containing about 2000 inhabitants : one league fouth 
of Orange, 
COUR'TIER,/ One that frequents or attends the 
xourts of princes.—■The principal figure in a picture, is 
c o u 
like a king among his courtiers , who ought to dim the 
luftre of his attendants. Drydcn. —One that courts or fo- 
licits the favour of another.—There was not among all 
our princes a greater courtier of the people than Richard 
III. not out of fear, but wifdom. Suckling. 
What 
Made thee, all honour’d, honeft, Roman Brutus, 
With the arm’d reft, courtiers of beauteous freedom, 
To drench the capitol ? Shakefpeare. 
COURTIL'Z (Garien de), fietir de Sandras, born at 
Paris in 1644. After having been captain in the regi¬ 
ment of Champagne, he fettled in Holland in 1683, where 
he wrote, 1. The Condudt of France fince the Peace of 
Nimeguen, 121110. 1683. 2. An Anfwer to the forego¬ 
ing; in which he produces the arguments on the otlier 
fide of the queftion. 3. The new Interefts of the Princes. 
4. Life of Coligni, 1686, i2mo. 5. Memoirs of Roch- 
fort, nmo. 6. Hiftory of the Dutch War from 1672 to 
1677 ; a work which obliged him for fome time to quit the 
territories of the republic. 7. Political Teftament of 
Colbert, nmo. 8. Le grand Alcandre fruftre ; or, The 
laft Efforts of Love and Virtue. 9. Memoirs of John 
Baptift de la Fontaine ; thofe of Artagnan, 3 vols. 12:110. 
thofe of Montbrun, 121110. thofe 01 the Marchionefs Diu 
frefne, 121110. thole of Bourdeaux, 4 vols. 121110. thofe 
of St. Hilaire, 4 vols. nmo. 10. Annals of Paris and 
of the Court, for the Years 1697 and 1698. 11. Life of 
the Vicomte Turenne, 121110. publiflied under the name of 
Dubuiffon. O11 his return to France in 1702, he was flint 
up in the Baftille, where he was kept for nine years. He 
died at Paris the 6th of May 1712, at the - age of fixty- 
eight. He was alfo author of, 12. Memoirs of Tyrcon- 
nel; compofed from the verbal accounts of that duke, 
a clofe prifoner, like him, in the Baftille. 13. Hiftorical 
and Political Mercury, See. He, betides, left manuferipts 
fufficient to make forty volumes, 121110. The Memoirs 
of Vordac, 2 vols. i2mo. are, unjuftly attributed to 
him. Voltaire calls him the Gafcon Sandras; but he 
was a Parifian, and not a Gafcon. 
COUR'TINE, f . See Curtain. 
COURTINE (La), a town of France in the depart¬ 
ment of the Creuze, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftridt of Felletin : four leagues fouth of Felletin. 
COURTISON', a town of France, in the department 
of the Marne : two leagues north-eaft of Chalons fur 
Marne. 
COURTI VRO'N (Gafpard le Compaffeur de Crequi, 
marquis de), chevalier de Saint-Louis, and penfionnaire 
veteran of the academy of fciences, born at Dijon in 1715, 
died the 4th of October 1785, at the age of feventy, fig- 
nalized himfelf both as a military and a literary man. Be¬ 
ing wounded in the campaign of Bavaria, in the adt of 
faving marflial Saxe from the moft imminent danger, lie 
thenceforward devoted his time to the cultivation of the 
fciences. We have by him, 1. A Treatife of Optics, 
1752, 4to. The author here gives the theory of light in 
the Newtonian fyfteni, with new dilutions of the princi¬ 
pal problems in dioptrics and catoptrics. This book is 
of ufe as a commentary on Newton’s Optics. - 2. Memoirs 
of an Epizootia which raged in Burgundy. 3. The Art 
of Forges and of Furnaces. He was a true pliilofopher : 
the only fentiment poffible to be perceived through the 
ferenity and filence of his laft moments, was that of gra¬ 
titude for the tendernefs that was (liewn him, and the 
conftant attention to fipare the fenfibility of his family 
and friends. 
COURT'LARY, a town of Swifferland, in the terri¬ 
tory of Bienne : feven miles north-weft of Bienne. 
COURT'LIKE, adj. Elegant; polite.—Our Englifh 
tongue is, I will not fay as facred as the Hebrew, or as 
learned as the Greek, but as fluent as the Latin, as cour¬ 
teous as the Spanitli, as courtlike as the French, and as 
amorous as the Italian. Camden. 
COURT'LINESSjjf. Elegance of manners; grace of 
mein ; 
