State-Wide, NC - Delilah Murray & Lydia Dodd - Act to Secure Property, 1806

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An Act to secure Delilah Murray of Greene county, and Lydia Dodd of Raleigh,
such property as they now have or may hereafter acquire

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, and it 
is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Delilah Murray, wife of
Archibald Murray of Greene county, and Lydia Dodd, wife of Robert Dodd, of
the city of Raleigh, shall be, and they are hereby entitled to hold, occupy,
possess and enjoy, in their sole right, all such estate, either real of
personal, as they now have or may hereafter acquire, by purchase, devise,
industry or otherwise, in as full and ample a manner as if the had never
been married to their said husbands, and shall have full power to sue for
and recover, before any jurisdiction having cognizance thereof, from their
said husbands or any other person or persons, any property they may hereafter
acquire of be entitled to, in the same manner as though they had never been
married.

Source:
NC Archives
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1806
Chapter CXII
Page 52

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