Dodd v. Parker
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Pulaski Chancery Court. IIon. D. W. Carroll, Circuit Judge. Since the adoption of the constitution of 1874, a married woman may convey her property for whatever purpose she pleases, merely by signing the body of the deed; no matter if the acknowledgment be defective, or if there he no acknowledgment at all. The constitution puts a married woman, in dealing with their own property, in the same category as a man, as a femme, sole, or as a person acting sui juris.
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APPEAL from Pulaski Chancery Court. IIon. D. W. Carroll, Circuit Judge. Since the adoption of the constitution of 1874, a married woman may convey her property for whatever purpose she pleases, merely by signing the body of the deed; no matter if the acknowledgment be defective, or if there he no acknowledgment at all. The constitution puts a married woman, in dealing with their own property, in the same category as a man, as a femme, sole, or as a person acting sui juris. The language of Section 7, Article IX, is that. the property of any femme covert in this State maybe devised, bequeathed…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
Mrs. Joyner ivas the owner of three lots in the city of Little Rock, by virtue of a- deed of gift from her father, made in 1872. In 1880 she joined her husband, W. J. Joyner, in executing a mortgage upon the premises, to secure his debt of $2,000 to Mrs. Dodd.
W. J. Joyner acknowledged this mortgage and directed the Justice of the Peace to go to his wife’s house for .the purpose of taking her acknowledgement. But this, as it appears, was never done. Nevertheless, that officer certified that Mrs. Joyner had áppéared before him and released her dower. And the instrument, "which contained no…
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