Quarles v. Lacy
Supreme Court of Virginia
IN this case, a bill was filed in the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond district, by Edmund Lacy against Francis• West Quarles and others, to subject to the payment a c^mec' by ^be formei', certain-property conveyed by the latter in trust. The bill stated that Lacy had obtained a judgment at law ^ against Quarles, who, being taken on a capias ad satisfaciendum, took the oath of an insolvent debtor.
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IN this case, a bill was filed in the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond district, by Edmund Lacy against Francis• West Quarles and others, to subject to the payment a c^mec' by ^be formei', certain-property conveyed by the latter in trust. The bill stated that Lacy had obtained a judgment at law ^ against Quarles, who, being taken on a capias ad satisfaciendum, took the oath of an insolvent debtor. It appeared from the proceedings, that the trust estate sought to be subjected by Lacy was a tract of land, or rather a surplus of the proceeds of the sale thereof, which was purchased by…
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Roane
pronounced the opinion of the court.
The"'court is of opinion, that although it is not competent to a husband, after his marriage, to defeat or obstruct his creditors by a sale or exchange of his property, and by taking a conveyance of the money or property received therefor, to the use, or for the benefit of his wife or family ; (such conveyances being deemed voluntary and fraudulent, in relation to creditors;) yet that the case may be otherwise, in relation to so much of such money or property as goes to compensate the just, interests of the wife; and it appearing, from *259t,h'e…
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