Sondley v. Caldwell

Citations

• 28 S.C. 580
• 6 S.E. 818

Syllabus

<p>1. Where a party takes a deed of conveyance to land, his wife’s inchoate right of dower at once attaches, and cannot be defeated by his subsequent acts of omission; therefore he having neglected to record his deed, and his grantor having subsequently mortgaged the land to others, the wife is entitled to her dower out of the land in the hands of purchasers at a sale made for the foreclosure of said mortgages.</p> <p>2. 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>