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"Personalty" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... WIFE: Husband controls wife's earnings. Curtesy and dower are equalised. After the death of either husband or wife, the survivor is given a life interest in one third of the realty of the deceased and an absolute estate in one half of the personalty. Wife controls her personal property, but cannot dispose of real estate without husband's consent; the husband can convey real estate without his wife's signature, but it is subject to her dower. Husband is legal guardian ...
— A Short History of Women's Rights • Eugene A. Hecker
... attention is the larger legal significance of the Indian's induction into citizenship. This has made itself manifest not only in a great access of litigation in which the citizen Indian figures as a party defendant and in a more widespread disposition to levy local taxation upon his personalty, but in a decision of the United States Supreme Court which struck away the main prop on which has hitherto rested the Government's benevolent effort to protect him against the evils of intemperance. The court holds, in effect, that when ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various |
Words linked to "Personalty" : effects, personal estate, belongings, chattel, clobber, stuff, personal property, holding, movable, personal effects, personal chattel, property |
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