Godfrey v. Thornton’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions

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1. ““The law has not hitherto undertaken to prohibit a husband to change his domicile without his wife’s consent, or to release the wife from her reasonable duty to accompany her husband upon his change of domicile. Gleason v. Gleason, 4 Wis. 64 . Upon such change the husband’s former place of residence ceases to be the homestead, and he may mortgage or convey it without his wife’s signature, subject to her inchoate right of dower. The husband cannot by his own act divest his wife’s right of dower, because it is an estate.' But he can by his own act free himself from his disability to mortgage or convey his homestead without the signature of his wife, 'because his disability vests no estate in her. And this is the plainer, because the husband, abandoning his homestead, and so freeing himself from his disability to alienate it, has no duty imposed upon him to acquire another to which the disability would attach."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Beranek v. Beranek