Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

cui ante divortium

[Law Latin "to whom before divorce"] Hist. A writ of entry enabling a divorced woman to recover land that she had held in fee but that her husband had sold without her permission during the marriage. The name of this writ derives from the words within it: cui ipsa ante divortium inter eos celebratum, contradicere non potuit ("whom she, before the divorce between them, could not gainsay"). The writ was abolished in 1833. Also termed sur cui ante divortium.