Kirkland v. Hepselgefser

The following syllabi is the verbatim opinion of the court, delivered December 18, 1853, by

Black, J.

— The legal propositions on which this judgment must stand affirmed, need only to be stated. They are as follows :—

1. Articles of agreement executed by a husband and wife, for the sale of the wife’s land, are of no validity, and convey no title whatever to her estate, in law or equity, without an acknowledgment, agreeably to the Act of 1770. .

2. A subsequent deed by the husband and wife to another person, acknowledged legally, will convey the title to the whole estate, just as if the previous…