This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1858 |
| Citation: | 12 Md. 294 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
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| Short Summary: | Holding that through the acts of 1842 and 1853 that a woman who acquires slaves through marriage cannot have those slaves taken from her to pay her husband's death. However, here the woman in question inherited these slaves before marriage and is therefore part of the property rights of the husband.Finding that a wife who separates from her husband "without lawful cause or justification" is not entitles to a decree of separate maintenance. |
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| Full name: | Lavinia E. Schindel by prochein ami, vs. Andrew J. Schindel |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |