Meade v. Clarke

Citations

• 159 Pa. 159
• 28 A. 214
• 1893 Pa. LEXIS 1491

Syllabus

<p>Deed — Acknowledgment—Married women — Creditors.</p> <p>Where a married woman executes and delivers a deed for land, and receives the purchase money, but does not acknowledge the deed until several months after its execution, her creditors who have in the meantime obtained a judgment, acquire no lien upon the land conveyed, and cannot set up the grantor’s disability to defeat the conveyance.</p> <p>Bjectment — Amendment—Abstract of title.</p> <p>In an action of ejectment, where the abstract of title omits matters of defence which are material and relevant, the court should permit an amendment of the abstract, so as to include such omitted matters upon such terms as may be equitable.</p>