McMorris v. Webb

Citations

• 17 S.C. 558
• 1882 S.C. LEXIS 99

Syllabus

<p>1. In action for dower, the defendant having produced a certificate of renunciation regular in form, the plaintiff may introduce evidence to show that at the time of such renunciation she was under the age of twenty-one years.</p> <p>2. A renunciation of dower made by an infant wife is no bar to her recovery of such dower when the right matures.</p> <p>3. The silence of the wife for twenty-eight years after the renunciation, while it was spread upon the records and other parties became purchasers, operated neither as a co'nflrmation nor an estoppel, she being all the while a married woman.</p> <p>4. The plea of purchaser for valuable consideration without notice is equitable in its character, and has no proper application to a claim purely legal like that of dower.</p>