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

Case No. 11,432.
    PRIME v. McREA.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 201.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Nov. Term, 1804.
    Decedents’ Estates — Liability por Debts in Virginia.
    One half of the real estate of a testator in Virginia is liable for his debts, although not charged by the will. Quaere.
   CRANCH, Circuit Judge,

doubted, whether a decree can be made to sell the real estate of Robert McRea in the hands of his heirs unless there be a mortgage or other lien; or unless the personal estate has been applied to relieve the real.

E. J. Lee. for complainant, cited Robinson v. Tonge, 3 P. Wms. 398, and Finch v. Earl of Winchelsea, in a note to that case, and Stile-man v. Ashdown, 2 Atk. 608. (Cur. ad. vult.)

THE COURT afterwards decreed a sale of half of the lands and rents. [Case No. 11,423.]