Wilkes County, NC - Sarah Tilley - Act to Acquire Property, 1827

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An Act to secure to Sarah Tilley, of Wilkes county, such property as
she 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 Sarah
Tilley, of Wilkes county, wife of Edmund Tilley, be, and she is hereby
entitled to hold, possess, and enjoy, in her sole right, any estate,
either real or personal, which she may hereafter, by industry, purchase,
gift or otherwise, in as full and ample a manner as she had never been
married to her said husband; and she is hereby authorised to prosecute
or defend any suit, in her own name, in any court within this State,
in the same manner as if she had never been married to the same Edmund
Tilley; any law to the contrary notwithstanding.


Source:
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1827
Chapter LXXI
Page 48-49

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