
    MRS. SHOCKLEY’S CASE.
    Orphans’ Court,
    c. 1821.
    
      Clayton’s Notebook, 142.
    
   J. M. Clayton. The lapse of time is nothing if short of twenty years. And the case of Kennedy v. Nedrow and Wife et al., 1 Dali. 417, 418, is in point to show that even if she had acted as executrix or claimed under the will (made before 1816) any interest whatever, and even if she had been a party to a partition, she is not barred of her dower. Every will at common law and before 1816 imported a bounty.

Hall urged the lapse of time and then partition.

The Chancellor, on the case, 1 Dali., decreed for the petitioner.  