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Cui ante divortium (to whom before divorce). A writ for a woman divorced from her husband to recover her 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, Reg. Brev. 233. Abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27, s. 36.