Source: https://www.legalcrystal.com/case/84462/porter-vs-lazear
Timestamp: 2019-04-22 05:03:55+00:00

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But under the provisions of the Bankrupt Act, all that passes to the assignee by the assignment in bankruptcy, or that can be sold by direction of the court, is property or rights of the bankrupt, or property conveyed by the bankrupt in fraud of creditors, unless indeed a person holding a mortgage or pledge of, or lien upon, property of the bankrupt elects to release the same. Rev.Stat. §§ 5044-5046, 5061-5066, 5075; Stat. 22d June, 1874, c. 390, § 4; Donaldson v. Farwell, 93 U. S. 631 .
It was established by judicial decisions in Pennsylvania, upon the construction and effect of these statutes, before the beginning of the publication of reports, that the wife's right of dower could be taken and sold on execution upon a judgment recovered against the husband, or upon scire facias on a mortgage executed for valuable consideration by him alone, or under a devise by him for the payment of his debts. Howell v. Laycock, cited in 2 Dall. 2 U. S. 128 ; Graff v. Smith, 1 Dall. 481, 1 U. S. 484 ; Scott v. Crosdale, 2 Dall. 127; S.C. 1 Yeates, 75; Mitchell v. Mitchell, 8 Penn.St. 126; Blair County Directors v. Royer, 43 Penn.St. 146.
The state court has accordingly constantly held that, with these exceptions, the right of dower is as much favored in Pennsylvania as elsewhere; that the old decisions are not to be extended, and that neither an absolute conveyance by the husband nor an assignment by him for the benefit of creditors, whether executed voluntarily or under a requirement of the insolvent law of the state, impairs the wife's right of dower. Kennedy v. Nedrow, 1 Dall. 415, 1 U. S. 417 ; Graff v. Smith and Kirk v. Dean, above cited; Killinger v. Reidenhauer, 6 S. & R. 531; Riddlesberger v. Mentzer, 7 Watts 141; Keller v. Michael, 2 Yeates 300; Eberle v. Fisher, 13 Penn.St. 526; Helfrich v. Obermyer, above cited; Worcester v. Clark, 2 Grant 84.

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