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1 Del. Cas. 620

Mrs. Shockley's Case

Orphan's Court of Delaware

Decided July 1, 1821

Orphan's Court of Delaware · decided 1821-07-01

Decided 1821-07-01

¶1J. 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.

¶2Hall urged the lapse of time and then partition.

¶3The Chancellor, on the case, 1 Dali., decreed for the petitioner.

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