Lee v. Blewett

Citations

• 116 Miss. 341
• 77 So. 147

Syllabus

<p>Wills. Marriage. Revocation.</p> <p>The reason upon which the rule of the common law ’ that a will made by a feme sole was revoked by her subsequent marriage was based, was that marriage destroyed the ambulatory nature of the will and left it no longer subject to the wife’s control, but since our statutes removing the disabilities of coverature, beginning with chapter 496, page 725, Laws 1866-67, having conferred full testamentary capacity upon married women, the reason of the rule has ceased, and consequently so has the rule itself.</p>