Paul. Your original message was quoted in my reply (below) and you most assuredly did say as a fact that "Women could not inherit land in those times" which was 1787 per the original post. Regardless, you have corrected the error and we are all now in agreement on the issue. Entailments and docking is quite another kettle of fish not exclusively related to land ownership by females. And a few woman refused to ever marry for the reason that as long as they were single, they owned the land. Craig In a message dated 4/23/01 7:55:24 PM, martee@citlink.net writes: << I did not say women could not inherit land; I DID say that if they did, the land became that of the marriage, and not her own, and the husband could sell it. To counteract that legal dilemma, entailments were attempted at late as 1750. Those were docked by statute. Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: <CASHKILBY@aol.com> To: <VA-SOUTHSIDE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 9:31 PM Subject: Re: [VA-SOUTHSIDE-L] will interpretation | | In a message dated 4/21/01 7:13:35 PM, martee@citlink.net writes:\ | | He seems to have conveyed to her a life | estate (women could not inherit land in VA in | those times) and left the legal remainder to | the [three] God-children. >> | | Paul--I do not agree that woman could not inherit land in 1787. I have many | wills conveying land to daughters either by will or by law. What is your | source for this statement? | | Craig Kilby | | | ==== VA-SOUTHSIDE Mailing List ==== | Hosted by Rootsweb http://www.rootsweb.com | | | ============================== | Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: | Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. | http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com |