Sec. 215. Bare legal estates
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This section is from the book "The Law Of Real Property and Other Interests In Land", by Herbert Thorn Dike Tiffany. Also available from Amazon: A Treatise on the Modern Law of Real Property and Other Interests in Land .
Sec. 215. Bare legal estates
If the estate of the husband is purely legal, the title being held by him in trust for another or others, the widow is not entitled to dower in equity, and she will be restrained from asserting such a claim at law.22 If, however, the husband's title be in
111, 234, 35 N. E. 765; Bowen v. Lingle, 119 Ind. 560, 20 N. E. 534; Reed v. Whitney, 7 Gray (Mass.) 533; Hart v. Logan, 49 Mo. 47; Worsham v. Callison, 49 Mo. 206; James v. Upton, 96 Va. 296, 31 S. E. 255.
19. Latham v. McLean, 64 Ga. 32; Walters v. Walte.s, 132 111., 467, 23 N. E. 1120; Lobdell v. Hayes, 4 Allen (Mass.) 187; Nortnass v. Pioneer Townsite Co., 82 Neb. 382, 117 N. W. 951; Morgan v. Smith, 25 S. C. 337; Lane v. Courtney, 1 Heisk. (Tenn.) 331. And see Barnes v. Gay, 7 Iowa. 26; Beebe v. Lyle, 73 Mich. 114, 40 N. W. 944. Contra, Spalding v. Haley, 101 Ark., 296, 142 S. W. 172; Malin v. Coult, 4 Ind. 535; Hutchinson v. Olberding, 136 Iowa, 346, 112 N. W. 647; Brewer v. Van Arsdale's Heirs, 6 Dana (Ky.) 204; Steuart v. Beard, 4 Md. Ch. 319; Church v. Church, 3 Sandf. Ch. (N. W.) 434; Bunting v. Foy,
66 N. C. 193; Thompson v. Cochran, 7 Humph. (Tenn.) 72, 46 Am. Dec. 68.
20. Thompson v. Cochran, 7 Humph. (Tenn.) 72; Crane v. Palmer, 8 Blackf. (Ind.) 120; Barnes v. Gay, 7 Iowa, 26; Williams v. Kierney, 6 N. Y. St. Rep. 560; Caroon v. Cooper, 63 N. C. 386; Hart v. Logan, 49 Mo. 47.
21. Taylor v. Kearn, 63 111. 339; Heed v. Ford, 16 B. Mon. (Ky.) 114; Smallridge v. Hazlett, 112 Ky. 841, 66 S. W. 1043 (statute); Worsham v. Callison, 49 Mo. 206; Pritts v. Ritchey, 29 Pa. St. 71; And see Inglis v. Fohey, 136 Wis. 28, 116 N. W. 857. Compare James v. Upton, 96 Va. 296, 31 S. E. 255.
22. 1 Ames, Cas. Trusts, 374, and note; Powell v. Monson & Brimfield Mfg. Co., 3 Mason 347, Fed. Cas., No. 11,356; Robison v. Codman, 1 Sumn. 121, Fed. Cas No. 11970; King v. Bushnell, 121 part beneficial, he having the legal title in trust for himself and others, his widow will have dower to the extent of his beneficial interest.23
- Interest of mortgagee. Since a mortgagee is considered as having, at most, a mere legal estate for the purpose of enforcing his security, and, in many of the states, no more than a lien, his widow is not entitled to dower.24
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