Ohio Supreme Court, 1860

Sell v. Miller

Sell v. Miller
Ohio Supreme Court · Decided December 15, 1860
11 Ohio St. (N.S.) 331

Sell v. Miller

Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

Where a married woman over eighteen, but under twenty-one years of age, has her domicile,and joins with her husband in the execution of a mortgage, within a foreign jurisdiction, where the age of majority is fixed at twenty-one years, upon real estate situate in Ohio, held: That such mortgage is not invalid for want of capacity on her part to contract; the capacity to contract, in respect to immovables, being governed by the law of the situs, and not by the law of the domicil.

Motion overruled.

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