Newsom Administrator v. Thompson
This text of 24 N.C. 277 (Newsom Administrator v. Thompson) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of North Carolina primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
If the act of 1823, c. 1211, (Rev. Stat. c. 37, sect. 22,) could help a deed like this, yet it cannot operate on that before us, inasmuch as it was made in 1819, before the act passed. As a conveyance at eommon law, it is clearly ineffectual to vest the slave in persons then unborn^ the limitations to such persons not being by way of remainder after a proper particular estate. To make a deed valid, [280]*280the grantees as well as the grantor must be in esse. Upon the case-agreed, therefore, the judgment of the Superior Court must be reversed, and judgment of nonsuit entered.
Per Curiam, Judgment reversed and nonsuit entered.
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