They follow the legacy. In re Denton, 102 N.Y. 200; Dinan v. Coneys,143 N.Y. 544; Seligman v. Seligman, 151 N.Y. Supp. 889; Phillips v. Humphrey, 42 N.C. 194; Hines v. Hines, 95 N.C. 482. In Kouvalinka v. Geibel, 40 N.J. Eq. 443, a gift of a fourth of the testator's estate to his widow for life, in money, was ordered paid over to her, the court observing that "if necessary to its safety security will be required."
Immediately upon his taking the land he became debtor to each of his brothers. Each one of them might then have maintained an action against him personally for the sum due him. Hines v. Hines, 95 N.C. 482; Aston v. Galloway, 38 N.C. 126. Whether by the terms of the will this personal liability assumed by the devisee became a charge or lien on the land or not is not important in the view we take of the matter.
They follow the legacy. In re Denton, 102 N. Y. 200, 6 N. E. 299; Dinan v. Coneys, 143 N. Y. 544, 38 N. E. 715; Seligman v. Seligman, 89 Misc. Rep. 194, 151 N. Y. S. 889; Phillips v. Humphrey, 42 N. C. 206; Hines v. Hines, 95 N. C. 482. In Kouvalinka v. Geibel, 40 N. J. Eq. 443, 3 A. 260, a gift of a fourth of the testator's estate to his widow for life, in money, was ordered paid over to her; the court observing that, "If necessary to its safety security will be required."