Supreme Judicial Court of Maine July 1, 1853 (Johnson v. Stillings)

Wells, J.

— The demanded premises were conveyed to Mark Lord and his wife in April, 1848. The husband survived the wife, but on the eighth day of June, 1848, he conveyed the premises to her by a deed duly executed. The demandants are the heirs at law of the wife, and if the conveyance to her is valid, they are entitled to recover.

By the common law, the legal union of the husband and wife made .