Taylor v. Cussen

Citations

• 90 Va. 40
• 17 S.E. 721
• 1893 Va. LEXIS 7

Syllabus

<p>1. Married Women— Trust deed — Separate estate. — A. deed of trust executed by a married woman and her trustee on her equitable separate estate in land, her husband not joining in the deed, is void.</p> <p>2. Idem — Rents and profits. — Such trust deed is not an incumbrance on the rents and profits of such estate where it does not appear that the loan secured by the deed was for her benefit, and where her intention was to' create a specific lien on the estate.</p> <p>3. Husband — Estoppel.—Where husband was not guilty of any fraud, actual or constructive, in negotiating the loan, he is not estopped from denying the validity of such deed.</p>