A Treatise on the Law of Marital Rights in Texas: Including Marriage, Divorce, Children, Community Property, Homestead, Administration and Death Actions

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Lawyers co-operative publishing Company, 1916 - Počet stran: 1051
 

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Persons who may not marry
6
Slaves
7
Contractual
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Consent of parents or guardians
10
Licenses
11
Solemnization or celebration 12 Who authorized to celebrate rites
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Indian customs and forms 14 Consummation
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Proof of marriage
15
Proof of marriage in criminal prosecutions
16
Presumptions
17
Burden of proof
18
Void and voidable
22
Fraud and duress
23
Curative statutes
24
Effects of invalid marriage
25
Infants statute
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SEPARATE PROPERTY
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Wife takes surname of husband 25 Jactitation of marriage 26 Trial
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Property rights in general 33 Status of the parties and their children 34 The community 35 Homestead and allowances
32
Guardianship and administration
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Descent of property
48
Death actions
49
Criminal cases
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Decrees of nullity 41 Chapter comment CHAPTER III
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MARRIAGE CONTRACTS AND SETTLEMENTS 42 Scope of chapter 43 Statutes 44 Further of record of contract and notice 45 Requisites and ...
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Biblical
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Husband and wife natural rights
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At common
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Spanish law of marital rights
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Constitutional provisions and statutes
68
Policy of our laws
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CHAPTER IV
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Husband must support the wife
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Actions in general
72
Wifes domicil
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When the husband has abandoned the wife or is insane
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Damages
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Conflict of laws CHAPTER II
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Enticing and alienating
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Wifes right of action
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CHAPTER VI
101
Transactions between parent and the child advancements
111
Statutes in aid of parental custody and control
112
Stepchildren and grandchildren
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Adoption and foster children
116
Children of null marriages bastards
118
Disinherison of children
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CHAPTER VII
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Wifes deed to her husband
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Husband or wife as creditor of the other
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Criminal conversation generally
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Same subject may the wife sue?
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May one spouse sue the other for loss of conjugal society?
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CHAPTER VIII
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ESTOPPEL
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To manage her separate property
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debt
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To charge or convey her separate property
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His liability for any conversion of her property
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Her power of attorney to
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How far wife is bound ratification
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Notice to husband as notice to wife
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His possession for
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Same necessaries
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Where husband and wife live apart
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Husbands interest in wifes property is an insurable
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CHAPTER IX
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Concerning the separate property
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116 Concerning the community property
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Husbands deed to wife presumptions delivery
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Husbands deed to wife no consideration gift
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Taking deed in wifes name
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Verbal sale or gift 121 Same evidence to establish
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Same depositing money in bank
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Intention of parties evidence
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May release her cause of action
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Husband or wife as trustee for the other
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Husband or wifes conveyance to trustee for the other
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Agreements to arbitrate
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May employ counsel
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For acquisition of land
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Creditors
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Agreements to arbitrate
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Her right to rescind recovery back
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Separation deeds
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Her contracts of insurance
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CHAPTER X
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Her warranty
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Of suretyship
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Same her mortgage
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Further of fraud her remedy
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As stockholder in certain corporations
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Concerning her separate property
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Ratification and waiver of fraud
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Gifts and gifts inter vivos
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CHAPTER XI
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Same wifes power of attorney 140 Antenuptial choses in action
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Ad valorem and other taxes
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Reformation of contracts
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Federal income taxes
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Public service 144 Bankruptcy
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Revision of 1879 present statute
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CHAPTER XII
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She may convey to any
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The deed its form
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Joinder of the husband
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At common law 146 Prior to act of 1840 adopting common law 147 Statutes their scope and object act 1848
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With her husband
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Same further of the community property
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Same undue influence
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May bind herself when
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The privy examination
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Certificate of officer
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Same seal
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Defective certificate correction
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Who authorized to take acknowledgment
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Defective deeds rights under
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Same as a basis for limitations
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Curative statutes
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Same reforming instrument
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Avoiding conveyance
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Same for fraud and duress
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Subjects of her conveyance separate property
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Same community property
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Same the homestead
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Same personal property
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Same expectancies
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Wife signing deed to which she is not a party grantor
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Special instruments her power of attorney
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Same contracts to sell and title bonds
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Same further of the homestead
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Same her mortgage
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Same mechanics and other liens for improvements
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Same leases
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Same checks
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Same bills of sale and assignments
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Same transfer of stocks and bonds
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Same gifts inter vivos and causa mortis
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Estate conveyed after acquired title
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Generally
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CHAPTER XIII
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Same fraud
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Same illustrations
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By silence delay or laches
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Accepting benefits
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By pleading application to court to sell
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Further of her declarations and admissions
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Acts and declarations of her husband
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Same concerning the community property
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By her deed
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Same afteracquired title
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COMMUNITY ADMINISTRATION
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Crimes by married women
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Husbands torts against the wife
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Act of March 21 1913 present statute
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Nature of wifes interest
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Construction of her conveyances
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Lost instruments proof to supply
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Record of her invalid conveyance 236 As trustee or agent
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What law governs
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By accepting deed 251 By election
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Same the right to control
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Living apart
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Defenses
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Presumptions
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Same deed taken in wifes name
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Same comment
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Same how rebutted burden of proof
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Same quantum of proof cases
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Property constituting
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Increase of community property
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Increase of separate property
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Her personal earnings
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314 Earnings of husband and children
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Crops grown upon her land
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Rents and hire of her separate property
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Minerals timber soil etc taken from her land
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Improvements
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Profits from investments
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By acts of survivor administratrix
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By judgment
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Damages to property
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CHAPTER XV
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Penalties under the statute
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Insurance policies
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Property acquired by limitations
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Colonial grants to families
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Purchases with borrowed money
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Bounty warrants and land certificates
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Profits
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Damages to her business 262 Her true relation to the attempted business
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Presumptions and burden of proof
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CHAPTER XVI
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Same for individual debts contracted during marriage
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Same further of the husbands liability 266 Her liability for the torts of others
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Statutes desertion abandonment
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Statutory definition
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Husband may defend against his wifes assaults
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CHAPTER XVIL WILLS 271 At common law 272 Statutes 273 Same posthumous children 274 Property that may be willed
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Registration statutes
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Property acquired after marriage by devise or descent
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Same as to beneficiaries 279 Same as to conditions
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Undue influence and want of mental capacity
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Joint wills
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Husbands will election by wife
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Revocation
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Interest rents damages etc when paid by her husband
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CHAPTER XVIII
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Rents hire etc under special circumstances
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Proceeds of insurance policies when
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Proceeds of land adjudged by court for her support
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Alimony pending divorce
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Same support and maintenance of ward
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Changes and mutations
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CHAPTER XIX
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Purchases with proceeds of separate property
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Generally definitions
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COMMON LAW AND PUTATIVE MARRIAGES
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In contemplation of marriage
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Express trusts
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Resulting trusts
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Same notice by recitals in deed
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Same evidence of parol
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Same quantum of proof required
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Constitutional provisions
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Statutes their scope and object
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The wife and family protected
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Nature of wifes interest
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What is homestead residence
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Same business homestead
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Dedication
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Intention
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In separate tracts or lots
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In larger tract
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Whether rural or urban
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Limitations as to quantity or value
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The estate to support
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Things affixed to the realty
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Purchases on credit
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The right to select
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Designating homestead statutes
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Sale generally
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Same by husband
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Same by the wife
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Same for roads streets
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Contracts to sell options
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Leases and renting
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Mortgages
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Mechanics liens
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Other liens for improvements
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Other liens judgment liens
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Taxes general and special
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Boundary and partition agreements
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Proceeds of voluntary sale exempt when
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Accounting with a first community
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Sales and encumbrances
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Innocent purchasers
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Same notice
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Conflict of laws
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Borrowed money 372 Presumptions and burden of proof 373 Innocent purchasers 374 Same notice 375 Liability and charges 376 Improvements
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Limitations
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Evidence of separate character recitals in deed
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Same oral evidence
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379 Conflict of laws
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Tacking disabilities
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Husband or wife pleading statute against the other
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Death statute suit filed
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Want of notice as a bar statute
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Proceeds of insurance 420 Abandonment of homestead 421 Same in fraud of wife 422 Same evidence and instruction 423 Husband and wife livin...
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Creditors
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How effected
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As it affects status of the parties
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As it affects the estates
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As it affects pending suits and choses in action
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Presumptions as to property
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CHAPTER XXXI
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Early divorces and divorce laws
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Present statutes
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Jurisdiction and venue
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Parties
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Annulment of marriage
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Same wife enceinte at marriage
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Same fraud or duress
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Cruelty excesses and outrages
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Same affecting the mind
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Abandonment
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Adultery
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Purchase money
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Same cases
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Parties as witnesses their statements and admissions
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Collusion of parties their agreements
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Right of wife individually to protect
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Miscellaneous exemptions statute 428 Same nature of wifes interest
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Same specific exemptions
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CHAPTER XXIII
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CHAPTER XXIV
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Actions concerning the community
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Same act March 21 1913
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Same injuries to child statute
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Same penalties and forfeitures under the statute
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Actions concerning the homestead
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Actions for alienating criminal conversation etc 447 When husband is insane
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Wife as a defendant
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Nature of survivors holding
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Same concerning the homestead
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Husband a necessary defendant with
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Partition of the homestead
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Adjudication of heirship statute
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She is not a necessary defendant when 453 Wife a party to husbands suit by fiction of
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On appeal or error
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CHAPTER XXV
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Same burden of proof to show authority presumptions
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Pleading
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Concerning separate property of survivor
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Equities between survivor and children
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Statutory actions other personal injuries
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Remarriage of survivor
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Facts showing her liability must be pleaded
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The court
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Coverture as a defense
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Other defenses generally 461 Process and appearance
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CHAPTER XXVI
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Same payment
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Setting apart exempt property allowances in lieu statutes
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Nature and extent of these rights in general
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Same as to the homestead and allowance in lieu
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Selecting the homestead
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Further as to persons entitled to exemptions and allowances in lieu
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Abandonment and partition of homestead
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Executory contracts of deceased
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Administration by other than survivor
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CHAPTER XXVII
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Administration of community property statutes
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Nature of survivors holding
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Paying community debts
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Extent of coverture as a defense
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Same pleading
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Same separation
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Defense of limitation personal to wife
611
Liens
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Suits by and against survivor
613
Individual liability of survivor and suits on bond
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Defective and irregular proceedings
615
Joint administration
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Closing up of community administration distribution
617
Remarriage of qualified survivor
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Rule at common law DEATH ACTIONS
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CHAPTER XXVIII
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Essentials to a cause of action
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Persons liable
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Beneficiaries in general
623
Same the wife
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Same the husband
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Same children
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Same parents
627
Defenses to action
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629 Abatement revival and survival
629
Limitations
630
Parties
631
Evidence
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Instructions
633
Act of March 13 1848
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When judgment against husband binds wife
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Wifes confession of judgment
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Execution and levy
650
Judgment in wifes favor execution
651
Vacating judgment or levy
652
Drunkenness insanity religious beliefs
679
Causes arising outside of state
680
Temporary orders alimony
681
Debts and alienation after suit filed
685
CHAPTER XXXII
688
Same right to a jury findings
704
Appeal and error
706
CHAPTER XXXIII
708
Remarrying statutes comment 550 Should settle property rights
709
Same community property
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Same homestead
713
Same creditors
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Equitable considerations
716
Devesting title to real estate
717
556 Custody of children
718
Same support
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Same conclusiveness of order
722
Change of name
723
Costs and attorneys fees
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Construction of decrees cases
725
Finality of decrees generally
726
Vacating decrees
728
Decrees of other jurisdictions and conflict of laws generally
730
Same Haddock v Haddock
731
CHAPTER XXXIV
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The estate for life and remaindermen 572 Conflict of laws
743
Partition distribution and final settlement 604 Administration under will
776
Pleading and proof 633 Verdict and judgment
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Appellate practice
875
Definitions 29 Validity in general vii
930
Presumptions 540 Quantum of proof required
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Damages 635 Same apportionment and distribution
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Strana 546 - All courts shall be open, and every person for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered, without sale, denial or delay.
Strana 837 - Territories and any foreign nation or nations, shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in such commerce...
Strana 561 - ... the jury may give such damages as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from such death to the parties, respectively, for whom and for whose benefit such action shall be brought...
Strana 405 - These definitions by writers of different countries are in effect *the same, and amount to this, that insurance is a contract by which the one party in consideration of a price paid to him adequate to the risk, becomes security to the other that he shall not suffer loss, damage, or prejudice by the happening of the perils specified to certain things which may be exposed to them.
Strana 84 - And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done ? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
Strana 346 - On the death of the husband or wife, or both, the homestead shall descend and vest in like manner as other real property of the deceased, and shall be governed by the same laws of descent and distribution, but it shall not be partitioned among the heirs of the deceased during the life-time of the surviving husband or wife, or so long as the survivor may elect to use or occupy the same as a homestead...
Strana 477 - The homestead of a family shall be, and is hereby protected from forced sale, for the payment of all debts except for the purchase money thereof, or a part of such purchase money, the taxes due thereon, or for work and mateiial used in constructing improvements thereon...
Strana 88 - All property, both real and personal, of the wife, owned or claimed by her before marriage, and that acquired afterwards by gift, devise, or descent, shall be her separate property; and laws shall be passed more clearly defining the rights of the wife, in relation as well to her separate property, as to that held in common with her husband. Laws shall also be passed providing for the registration of the wife's separate property.
Strana 190 - ... owing debts to the amount of one thousand dollars or over, may be adjudged an involuntary bankrupt...
Strana 96 - That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States...

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