Frazier v. . Brownlow
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This cause having been set for hearing, was transmitted by consent from the Court of Equity for Halifax County at the Spring Term 18-14, to the Supreme Court. The following are the facts disclosed by the pleadings: Mrs. Martha M. R. Brownlow, being seised in fee of two tracts of land situate on Roanoke, in the counties of Halifax and Northampton, intermarried with Tippoo S. Brownlow, by whom she had issue.
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This cause having been set for hearing, was transmitted by consent from the Court of Equity for Halifax County at the Spring Term 18-14, to the Supreme Court. The following are the facts disclosed by the pleadings: Mrs. Martha M. R. Brownlow, being seised in fee of two tracts of land situate on Roanoke, in the counties of Halifax and Northampton, intermarried with Tippoo S. Brownlow, by whom she had issue. Brownlow, the husband, became involved in debt, and, indeed, insolvent; and his estate in the lands was sold on execution and bought by William W. Williams, a friend of Mrs. Brownlow.…
1Opinion of the CourtRuffin, C. J.
There has been a diversity of opinion, as to the right and power of a married woman to charge her general specialty debts on her separate property, or to dispose of such property, when the settlement designates a particular mode of conveyance oí* appointment, by any other mode than the one specified. Some have supposed, that every security, given by a feme covert,'having separate property, is to be considered as given with a view to her separate estate, because iu that way only can it have any effect. Some also have thought, that, as a married woman, in respect of her separate property, is in…
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