Boyden v. Lancaster
Court of Appeals of Virginia
Ann Jane Boyden was twice married. About the year 1831 she intermarried with her first husband, Edward W. Curd, who died in the year 1847, and in the following year she intermarried with the appellant, Lucius Boyden. During the coverture of the said Ann Jane with her first husband, he was seized in fee simple of several parcels of land, all of which he sold and during the coverture conveyed to sundry-persons, without the assent or relinquishment of the said Ann Jane.
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Ann Jane Boyden was twice married. About the year 1831 she intermarried with her first husband, Edward W. Curd, who died in the year 1847, and in the following year she intermarried with the appellant, Lucius Boyden. During the coverture of the said Ann Jane with her first husband, he was seized in fee simple of several parcels of land, all of which he sold and during the coverture conveyed to sundry-persons, without the assent or relinquishment of the said Ann Jane. In the year 1848, the said Ann Jane and Lucius Boyden exhibited their bill in the Circuit Superior Court of Buckingham county,…
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
This is a suit in equity, brought by husband and wife to obtain assignment of dower of several tracts or parcels of land, of which the first husband of the wife was seized during the coverture, and which he aliened during the coverture without the wife’s consent, evidenced by her privy examination and relinquishment. The alienees and holders of the several tracts are convened in one and the same bill, and the appropriate relief prayed. One of the defendants, J. A. Lancaster, who holds two of the tracts, demurred to the bill of the plaintiffs, and assigns for cause of demurrer, “that the bill,…
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