Ciconte v. Barba

The Chancellor:

In Kunz v. Kurtz, 8 Del. Ch. 404, 68 A. 450, it was distinctly held by Chancellor Nicholson that the Married Women’s Act of this State (now Revised Code 1915, § 3047 et seq., as amended), notwithstanding it liberated in a general way a married woman’s property from the consequences of the oneness which the common law attributed to the relation of husband and wife, nevertheless left undisturbed the common law concept of an estate by the entirety with its incident of the right of survivorship. In Godman v. Greer, et al., 12 Del. Ch. 397, 105 A. 380, the Orphans’ Court held that…