Lacy v. Wilson
Supreme Court of Virginia
FAJVNY LACY, widow, and Lydia Lacy and others, children of Thomas B. Lacy, filed their bill in the County Court of Harrison, against Stephen B. Wilson and others ; stating that, on the 8th day of December, 1794, William Hopkins, late of New Kent, father to Mrs. Lacy, executed a deed of gift, whereby he lent to her, for life, a mulatto girl, Helvia, and, after her death, to be equally divided amone; her children ; that the deed was recorded m the County Court of Harrison, in…
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FAJVNY LACY, widow, and Lydia Lacy and others, children of Thomas B. Lacy, filed their bill in the County Court of Harrison, against Stephen B. Wilson and others ; stating that, on the 8th day of December, 1794, William Hopkins, late of New Kent, father to Mrs. Lacy, executed a deed of gift, whereby he lent to her, for life, a mulatto girl, Helvia, and, after her death, to be equally divided amone; her children ; that the deed was recorded m the County Court of Harrison, in June, 1795, on the proof of George Jackson,one of the subscribing witnesses; that, in July, 1799, Lacy,' the i , . ,…
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Roane
delivered the following opinion of the court.
The slaves claimed by the appellee in this case, having been held by Thomas B. .Lacy, under a loan from William Hopkins, for mere than five years preceding the sale of them *316by the said Lacy to D’Everman, under whom the appellee claims; and-the limitation of the said slaves, in favour of Mrs. Lacy and her children, not having been declared by a deed proved and recorded pursuant of the directions of the “ Act to prevent frauds and perjuries ;” — the court is of opinion, that such limitation was void, as to the creditors and purchasers of…
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