CONSUMMATE

Completed; as dJstln• gutshed from tnitlate, ·or that which ls merely begun. The husband of a woman seised of an estate of inheritance becomes, by the birth of a chlld, tenant by the curtesy in-· mate, and may do many acts to charge the lands, but litil estate· 18 not con,gummate tlll the deatli ot·the- Wife. 2 BI. Comm; 1.26, 128 f Co. Litt. 80a. [s. 262]