Young v. Duvall
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OP THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA. Bill in equity to set aside a deed of trust given by husband and wife of wife’s real estate to secure payment of a debt of the husband.
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APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OP THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA. Bill in equity to set aside a deed of trust given by husband and wife of wife’s real estate to secure payment of a debt of the husband. The ■ following averment in the bill shows the ground of the action: “ 1. Complainant charges and avers that said deed of trust (and the other paper, whatever it may be) is a fraud upon her rights ; that the same is void in law, in that she did not know its contents, and that she did not acknowledge the same in any manner, either in the presence or hearing of her husband, or separately and privately…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
It is provided by the Revised Statutes.of the Hnited States, relating to the District of Columbia, that “ when any married woman shall be a party executing a deed for the conveyance of real estate or interest therein, and shall only be' relinquishing her right of dower, or when she shall be a party with her husband to any deed, it shall be the duty of the officer authorized to take acknowledgments, before whom she may appear, to examine her privily and apart from her husband, and to explain to her the deed fully; ” further, “ if upon such privy examination and explanation, she shall…
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