Pickett v. Chilton
Supreme Court of Virginia
ON the 27th of October, .803, upon a contemplated intermarriage between the Appellee and Mrs. Felicia Chilton, the widow of Orrick Chilton deceased, who was possessed of a considerable persona! estate, and had then living two children by her first husband ; a Deed of Trust was executed by the said parties, reciting an agreement between them, “ that John Chilton, (the Appellee) should, after the said intended mar“riage, receive and enjoy, during the joint lives of them the…
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ON the 27th of October, .803, upon a contemplated intermarriage between the Appellee and Mrs. Felicia Chilton, the widow of Orrick Chilton deceased, who was possessed of a considerable persona! estate, and had then living two children by her first husband ; a Deed of Trust was executed by the said parties, reciting an agreement between them, “ that John Chilton, (the Appellee) should, after the said intended mar“riage, receive and enjoy, during the joint lives of them the John Chilton and Felicia Chilton, the interest and occu» “ Pabon of the said personal estate, and also that the same, and…
1Opinion of the Court
March 11th, 1817.
Judge Roane
pronounced the Courts opinion,
The Court is of opinion, that, upon the true construction of the marriage agreement, among the exhibits, the right of John Chilton, the husband, to the personal estate of Felicia Chilton, his intended wife, embraced by the said agreement, is, by the terms thereof, only restrained, during the cover-lure, to the use of the said property ; and that, after the coverture, in the event, which has happened, of his surviving her, the said Felicia, the same was only intended to be farther restrained, if, and in the event that, she should limit…
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