Sidwell v. Sidwell

Rodney, J.,

delivering the opinion of the Court:

I shall first consider the matter of the real estate.

- The statute expressly states that in a divorce for the aggression of the wife she shall be “restored” to-a whole or a part of her real estate. I am clearly of the opinion that in such a case the word “restored” gives to the statute a meaning that there shall be returned to the wife or that she shall be reinvested with the real estate or a part thereof which she had at the time of marriage or which she acquired during the marriage and as to which the husband had obtained some right or rights…