Cox v. Building & Loan Ass'n

Sinclair and wife borrowed $1,200 from the defendant association, which was received by the wife and applied principally to pay off a vendor’s lien upon real estate, the title to which was in her. They executed a mortgage upon the same lot to the defendant association, to secure the amount borrowed. In this instrument Mrs. Sinclair acknowledged the receipt by her of the amount borrowed. The acknowledgment of the married woman to this mortgage 'Was defective in that it omitted from the certificate the words ‘ ‘ without compulsion or constraint from her husband and for the purposes therein…