Minter v. Pounds’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “It is the established rule that, where property is purchased by the husband with the wife's separate means, it is the wife's separate property, if she can trace her money to the property for which it was paid. The simple question in the present case is whether the circumstances are sufficiently explicit to show that it was the separate means of the wife that paid for the property.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Alamo Nat. Co. v. Key.