Case ID: dc_1/html/0201-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Cranch, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Prime v. McRea’s Executors and Heirs.
    One half of the real estate of a testator in Virginia is liable for his debts, although not charged by the will. Qucere.
    
    
      Mr. E. J. Lee, for the complainant,
    cited Robinson v. Tonge, 3 P. "Wins. 398, and Finch v. Earl of Winchelsea, in a note to that case, and Stileman v. Ashdoun, 2 Atb. 608. (Cur. ad. vult.)
    
   Cranch, J.,

doubted, whether a decree can be made to sell the real estate of 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.

The Court afterwards decreed a sale of half of the lands and rents.