Supreme Court of Alabama December 15, 1876 (Chambers v. McPhaul)

MANNING, J. —

The only provisions of law that secure to *368the family of a deceased person, or to bis widow or children, a homestead right, are contained in sections 2, 3 and 5 of article X in the present constitution (the same as sections 2, 3 and 5 of article XIY of the constitution of 1868), or in the “act to regulate property exempted from sale for the payment of debts,” approved April 23,