case palmer versus Trevor novembris in court Lord keeper Eq can ab pl e pl S c  legacy bequeathe to a feme covert payment to her alone not good For a wife can  during coverture acquire property distinct from her husband Lightbourn v  holiday Eq can ab pl Coomes v Elling atk as to property give by husband and  stranger to trustee for the wife vide Bletsow v sawyer ante p and case there  cite tailor v Jones atk Coomes v Elling ub sup Garforth v Bradley ves as to  what shall be consider as reduce into possession in respect of a legacy Blount  v Bestland Ves sawer v shoot Anstr Campbell v French Ves wall v Tomlinson Ves  and money due to a feme covert even under a decree will not be pay to trustee  in the settlement if the settlement be not mention in the plead without a  reference to the deputy remembrancer or if in chancery it be presume the  master to see whether there be a settlement or not Hardwick v mind Anstr but  such a legacy be in the nature of a choose in action and if not receive or  otherwise reduce into possession by the husband in his lifetime it shall  survive to the wife for a release by the husband shall not be presume  Brotherow v hood Com Rep and it shall seem as a general principle that where  the property of the wife rest in contract that do not give a certain right to  the husband it shall survive to the wife where a legacy be to be pay at a  certain day it shall carry interest from that time if not paid But a demand  must be make to carry interest Jolliffe v crew pasch pre Ch contra except  where a legacy be devise general smelly do you salk cite Eq can ab pl and  except in case of infancy and lunacy ibidem but where legacy bring into court  and legatee have notice of it he shall lose the interest from that time unless  he pray to have the money or have it lie out Maxwell v Wettenhall p win and at  law it seem uncore priest in a action against executor on bind to fulfil the  will be hold a good plea fringe v Lewis Leon Slanings case Poph et vide  Churchill v lady speak ante and case cite in note there but a demand must be  make to carry interest Jolliffe v crew pasch pre Ch contra except where a  legacy be devise general smelly do you salk cite Eq can ab pl and except in  case of infancy and lunacy ibidem but where legacy bring into court and  legatee have notice of it he shall lose the interest from that time unless he  pray to have the money or have it lie out Maxwell v Wettenhall p win and at  law it seem uncore priest in a action against executor on bind to fulfil the  will be hold a good plea fringe v Lewis Leon Slanings case Poph et vide  Churchill v lady speak ante and case cite in note there a b devise pound to  the plaintiff wife to be pay within six month after the testator death and a  bill be bring for this legacy the defence which the defendant the executor  make be that he have pay the legacy Vernon chancery case to the plaintiff wife  and have her receipt for it and the defendant counsel insist that this be a  good payment for that without doubt a man may so devise a legacy to a feme  covert for her separate maintenance as that the husband shall not intermeddle  with it and that the wife receipt shall be a sufficient discharge for it and  they further insist that such be the intent of the testator in this case and  that the will ought to be so construe in equity for at the time of make this  will the plaintiff and his wife be part which be then well know to the  testator and that the wife be much straighten for want of maintenance and it  be say that the civil law whereby legatory matter be proper determinable be  that such a legacy ought to be pay to the wife but the defendant counsel not  be prepare to maintain that point the Lord keeper hold it no good payment and  decree the legacy to be pay to the plaintiff with interest it be to be pay by  the will at a certain time videlicet within six month after the testator death  Vernon chancery case er p