Campbell v. Moon

Citations

• 16 S.C. 107
• 1881 S.C. LEXIS 137

Syllabus

<p>1. A relinquishment of inheritance to land, by a married woman in 1860, was properly made before a magistrate of the district in which she resided, although the land lay in another district.</p> <p>2. The deed, properly executed, with relinquishment endorsed, was recorded four years afterwards, in the life-time of both husband and wife. Held, that the record was in sufficient time to bar the wife’s inheritance. Kottman v. Ayer, 1 Strobh. 553, approved and followed.</p> <p>3. The relinquishment was sufficient in form, notwithstanding the omission of the word “actually” from the clause “she did join,” &c.</p> <p>4. The deed, properly executed, conveying the land to two persons, with relinquishment to only one of the grantees, but in all other respects regular, is sufficient to bar the claim of the surviving wife to recover the land.</p>