Spiers v. . Alexander
Supreme Court of North Carolina
From Cabarrus. Detinue for negro slave Violet: plea::, non delimit and. stat. lim. Upon the trial, ike title of the Plaintiffs appeared (o be derived by a perol gift to the feme Plaintiff, while sole, and an infant, by her step-father, J. Means, in whose house she lived at the time of the gift, and after-wards until her intermarriage with the other Plaintiff, which happened before she M as of full age, and several years after the gift had been made.
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From Cabarrus. Detinue for negro slave Violet: plea::, non delimit and. stat. lim. Upon the trial, ike title of the Plaintiffs appeared (o be derived by a perol gift to the feme Plaintiff, while sole, and an infant, by her step-father, J. Means, in whose house she lived at the time of the gift, and after-wards until her intermarriage with the other Plaintiff, which happened before she M as of full age, and several years after the gift had been made. The Plaintiffs were, married at Means’s, and resided a few days with him, and then removed to Spiers’s own house, which was in the neighborhood,…
1Opinion of the Court
Tayj.or, Chief-Justice,
delivered the opinion of the Court:
The only propel" conclusion that can be-drawn from the statement of the case is, that the slave Violet was delivered to the female Plaintiff by Means when the gift was made.; for a transfer of possession is implied, since, without it, a gift is not valid. This continued up to the time of the n 4 x marriage inclusive, and Spiers, the husband, then acquired, in right of his wife, the possession of the slave, which lie continued to hold during the time he remained in the house of Means. It signifies nothing that he left the slave with…
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