As between the husband’s creditors and the wife, in respect of the wife’s equity for a settlement, the Court will, under circumstances, give the wife more than one-half; and where the wife had been at the time of the marriage and long afterwards in circumstances of comfort, and was reduced to distress by the husband’s embarrassments, the Court gave the costs of the Petitioner and of the husband’s assignees out of the fund, which was andpound;681, andpound;400 to the wife, and the remainder to the Petitioner ; the wife’s costs out of her own fund.
Citations:
[1852] EngR 803, 11 Vict c 96, (1852) 61 ER 428
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Updated: 02 May 2022; Ref: scu.295926