Foster v. . Williams
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Shaw, J., at the June Term, 1921, of Wilkes. Civil action, tried and determined on case agreed. From the facts and admissions properly presented, it appears that'on 9 December, 1907, Mrs. Nancy C. McGrlammery, then wife of L. M. McGrlammery, owner of the land in controversy, and who had been properly constituted a free trader, pursuant to the statute, undertook to convey said land, by written deed, to ber btisband.
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Appeal by defendant from Shaw, J., at the June Term, 1921, of Wilkes. Civil action, tried and determined on case agreed. From the facts and admissions properly presented, it appears that'on 9 December, 1907, Mrs. Nancy C. McGrlammery, then wife of L. M. McGrlammery, owner of the land in controversy, and who had been properly constituted a free trader, pursuant to the statute, undertook to convey said land, by written deed, to ber btisband. Said deed was in due form to convey real estate, containing the usual covenants, and with, acknowledgment and privy examination taken in ordinary form, but…
1Opinion of the Court
HoKE, J\
Our decisions have very insistently and uniformly held that in order to a valid conveyance of a married woman’s real estate there must be the written assent of her husband and her privy examination had pursuant to “the law, appertaining to the question. 1 C. S., 997; Stallings v. Walker, 176 N. C., 321; Warren v. Dail, 170 N. C., 406; Smith v. Bruton, 137 N. C., 79; Scott v. Battle, 85 N. C., 185. And when the conveyance is from the wife directly to the husband it is essential that, in addition to her private examination in ordinary form, there shall appear the certificate of the…
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