Snelling v. Lamar

Citations

• 32 S.C. 72
• 10 S.E. 825
• 1890 S.C. LEXIS 12

Syllabus

<p>1., In 1843 a tract of land was conveyed to trustees in trust for the sole and separate use of a married woman during the joint lives of herself and her husband, and if she survived her husband, then in trust for the use of herself and such children as she might then have living, so long as she remained the widow of such husband; and upon her death or remarriage the said property was to be divided per stirpes between her then surviving children and the issue of such as were then dead. Held, that upon the death of the husband, there was no further duty to be performed, or discretion to be exercised, by the trustees, and therefore the statute executed the use in his surviving widow and children.</p> <p>2. A deed of feolfment, with livery of seizin, made by this widow and her then surviving children, barred the ultimate contingent remainders, and conveyed a good title to the feolfee.</p> <p>3. If. an estate be given to a woman during widowhood, she takes an estate for life determinable upon her remarriage.</p>