
    
      Present — Chancellors Hutson and Mathews.
    Quince vs. Callender and others.
    MARCH. 1789.
    case Eli.
    ». b. p. 196.
    Interest of lowed where the contract, in°Nortl™Ca-rolina, had reference to lands in this state.
   The master having represented to the court that the defendants in this cause had objected to the allowance of seven Per centí as not being the legal interest of North Carolina, where the marriage bond, in bill mentioned, was dated, the court were of opinion, that as the lands on which the settlement was made, Ian in this state, the interest °f iAis state should he allowed: And therefore ordered, that interest of seven per cent, being the legal interest thereof, should be allowed.  