Hubbard v. Sage Land & Improvement Co.

Citations

• 81 Miss. 616

Syllabus

<p>Exemptions. Homestead. Husband and wife. Release of widow. Code 1892, (¡1983.</p> <p>Under Code 1892, {¡1983, a deed of trust executed by a husband who is living with his wife is void as to the homestead exemption of 160 acres included therein without the joinder of the wife and his widow and children take as tenants in common at his death, and a release of all homestead right which the beneficiary in the trust deed without further consideration, procures from the widow in eighty acres adjoining the eighty acres on which the dwelling is situated, is void for all purposes save to fix the character of such eighty acres as a part of the homestead.</p>