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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MRS. SHOCKLEY’S CASE.
    Orphans’ Court,
    c. 1821.
    
      Clayton’s Notebook, 142.
    
   J. M. Clayton. The lapse of time is nothing if short of twenty years. And the case of Kennedy v. Nedrow and Wife et al., 1 Dali. 417, 418, is in point to show that even if she had acted as executrix or claimed under the will (made before 1816) any interest whatever, and even if she had been a party to a partition, she is not barred of her dower. Every will at common law and before 1816 imported a bounty.

Hall urged the lapse of time and then partition.

The Chancellor, on the case, 1 Dali., decreed for the petitioner.