Singluff v. Tindal

Citations

• 40 S.C. 504
• 19 S.E. 137
• 1894 S.C. LEXIS 175

Syllabus

<p>1, Married woman — Promissory Note. — A promissory note is not a “like formal instrument,” within the meaning of the act of 1887 (19 Stat., 819), which declares that “all conveyances, mortgages, and like formal instruments of writing, affecting her separate estate, executed by a married woman, shall be effectual to convey or charge her separate estate, whenever the intention so to convey or charge such separate estate is declared m such conveyances, mortgages, or other instruments of writing.” And a married woman is not liable on her note given in payment of her husband’s debt, notwithstanding the declaration therein written, “that it is my purpose and intention, in making this note, to charge my separate property with payment of the same.”</p> <p>2. Oasis Criticised. — Martin v. Súber, 39 S. 0., 525, approved and followed.</p>