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· 3/2/1908

Coleman v. Wax

Citations

  • 120 La. 877
  • 45 So. 926
  • 1908 La. LEXIS 586

Syllabus

<p>Homestead — W aivek — Validity.</p> <p>A waiver of homestead, in a notarial act in which the husband gives a mortgage to secure a loan made to him, although so worded as to be apparently by the wife alone, will be held to be also by the husband, since otherwise it would be nonsensical; the wife not having, independently of her husband, any homestead to waive.</p> <p>[Ed. Note. — For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 25, Homestead, §§ 187, 338.]</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>

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  • recognizing that a defendant “must be a stranger to a contract to tortiously interfere with it”

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