Emerson v. Clayton
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Clinton County; the Hon. Silas L. Bryah, Judge, presiding. The pleadings in this cause upon which the questions arise, are sufficiently set forth in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
On the twenty-first of February, 1861, an act was passed by the general assembly of this State, entitled “An act to protect married women in their separate property,” which provides “ That all the property, both real and personal, belonging to any married woman, as her sole and separate property, or which any woman hereafter married owns at the time of her marriage, or which any married woman, dining coverture, acquires, in good faith, from any person, other than her husband, by descent, devise, or otherwise, together with all the rents, issues, increase and profits thereof, shah,…
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