State-Wide, NC - Jane Redding & Mary Seats - Act to Secure Property, 1806

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An Act to secure to Jane Redding of Bladen county and Mary Seats of
Iredell county, such property as they 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 Jane Redding of
Bladen county, and Mary Seats of Iredell county, shall be entitled to and 
possess, in their sole right, all such estate as they may hereafter acquire
either real or personal, in as full and ample a manner as if they had never
had been married, clear from the claim or claims of their husbands, or any
of the creditors of their said husbands, and shall have full power to sue 
for recovery, in any court of record having cognizance thereof, from their
husbands or any other person or persons, any property they may be entitled
to, in the same manner as if they had never been married; any law to the
contrary notwithstanding.


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

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