93 So. 704 | Ala. | 1922
Upon the wife of a mortgagor there is conferred the right to redeem. Code, § 5746. The complainant is so entitled unless she has forfeited the right to avail of the privilege. The debtor, mortgagor, or "any one holding under him by privity of title" must deliver possession to the purchaser within 10 days after the foreclosure sale "on written demand of the purchaser or his vendee." Code, § 5747. There is no "privity of title" between husband and wife with respect to lands owned by the living husband. Dower inchoate is not title. It is a mere expectancy. 5 Mich. Ala. Dig. p. 215. In the husband's land, which from occupancy has become characterized as the homestead, the wife has no estate or title. Witherington v. Mason,
A mortgage may be given to secure future advancements; and it is not essential to the validity of such an instrument that a particular or definite sum should be specified. Huckaba v. Abbott,
If the mortgage was intended by the parties to secure indebtedness to be subsequently incurred to this mortgagee by complainant's husband — and that in fact appears in terms in the instrument — then the subsequent, valid creation of such indebtednesses was the exercise of a lawful privilege or right, without the taint of fraud, whatever the motive or purpose Thomas and Blair had in thus increasing the amount of the incumbrance upon the land. The exercise of a lawful right cannot be constituted wrongful or fraudulent by the mere motive or purpose *50
with which such right is exercised. Empire Realty Co. v. Harton,
The demurrer should have been overruled. The decree is reversed, and the cause is remanded.
Reversed and remanded.
ANDERSON, C. J., and SOMERVILLE and THOMAS, JJ., concur.