Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in the Eastern District, Vol. 2: Containing the Cases Decided at December Term, 1836, and March Term, 1837
It is the settled law of Pennsylvania that a married woman is to be deemed to possess no power in respect to her separate estate, but what is positively given, or reserved to her, by the instrument creating such estate.
Where by a deed made after marriage, real estate was conveyed in trust for the separate use of A., the wife of the grantor the trustee to receive the rents and profits, and pay the same over to A., or to such person, and in such manner as she should appoint; it was held, that she had no power to devise the estate by an instrument in nature of a will.
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