Goad v. Moulton

Citations

• 67 Cal. 536
• 8 P. 63
• 1885 Cal. LEXIS 692

Syllabus

<p>Deed—Form Aim Effect— Consideration—Hindering and Delaying Creditors—Legal Title.—No consideration need be expressed in a deed of conveyance in order to give it effect, nor is it material that the deed was intended to hinder and delay creditors, so far as its sufficiency to pass the legal title is concerned.</p> <p>Married Woman—Capacity to Contract—Promissory Note—Holder for Value.—In this State, a married woman may enter into any engagement or transaction respecting property, which it would he competent for an unmarried woman to enter into, and her capacity in this respect extends to the making of a promissory note for a consideration or the accommodation of another person; • and such a note may he enforced by a holder for value against her separate estate, though taken by him with notice of the circumstances under which it was given.</p>