Maynard v. Williams

Citations

• 17 Ala. 676

Syllabus

<p>1. The act of 31st January 1846, for the relief of married women, does not invest the wife with a separate estate in the 'property possessed by her at the time of the marriage, but the legal title by the marriage vesta in the husband, subject a'one to the payment of her debts contracted before, and of his contracted during the coverture.</p> <p>2. On the death of the husband the property goes to his personal representative, subject to the same liabilities that attached to it in the hands of the decedent, and, after their payment, to distribution in the mode pointed out in the general statute of distributions.</p>