Ladd Ex Rel. Montgomery v. Ladd
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia and County of Alexandria, sitting'as a court of equity. The facts of the case were these. On the 20th of October, 1824, a marriage being about to take place between Joseph B. Ladd and Harriet V. Nicoll, both of the town of Alexandria, the following marriage settlement was executed by those parties.
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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia and County of Alexandria, sitting'as a court of equity. The facts of the case were these. On the 20th of October, 1824, a marriage being about to take place between Joseph B. Ladd and Harriet V. Nicoll, both of the town of Alexandria, the following marriage settlement was executed by those parties. “ This indenture tripartite, made this twentieth day of October, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty-four, between Joseph B. Ladd, of the town of Alexandria, of the first part, Harriet V.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Daniel
The important legal questions arising upon this record, and on which the decision of the cause must depend, appear to be these: —
1st. The nature and extent of the estate embraced within the power reserved to the feme by the marriage settlement; viz., whether that power comprised as well real as personal estate, or was limited to interest, rents, and profits merely, and by name.
2d. The mode of appointment indicated by the marriage contract, and whether this mode has been shown to have been either strictly or substantially and fairly complied with in the requisites of signing, sealing, and…
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