Davis v. Compton

The sole question in this case is, whether the property acquired during marriage is liable to be seized and sold on execution, to pay a judgment obtained against the husband before marriage.

Art. 2372 C. C. declares, that “ the debts of both husband and wife anterior to the marriage, must be acquitted out of their own personal and individual effects.”

This Article must be interpreted in connection with Article 2373 of the same Code, which pronounces the husband to be the head and master of the partnership or community of gains, and permits him to administer its effects, dispose of the revenues…