Seymour v. . Wilson

We think the ruling was erroneous. Fraud against creditors always consisted in the corrupt intent of the parties to the transaction. The statute of frauds (13 Eliz., ch. 5) defines fraudulent conveyances as "feigned, covinous and fraudulent feoffments," c., "devised and contrived of malice, fraud, covin, collusion or guile, to the end, purpose and intent to delay, hinder or defraud creditors," and they are described in the same language in the early reënactment of that statute in this state. (1 R.L., 75.) In the Revised Statutes, though the language is more refined the meaning is the same.…