This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1856 |
| Citation: | 9 Md. 291 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
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| Short Summary: | Interpreting a marriage covenenat containing a promise to never sell of dispose of any slave without the wife's consent. "And with such an estate in her, the marital rights of the husband attached upon the decease of the wife, if not before; the deed itself, or that, with the aid of the marriage covenant, only having the effect of securing to her the sole and separate use of the property during her life." |
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| Full name: | Tabitha A. Waters, et al., vs. Samuel O. Tazewell, et al. |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |