Pierce v. Osman

— The appellant’s theory is that a married woman might, prior to the act of 1879, charge her separate real estate by a contract wherein she agreed to pay for services rendered by an attorney in defending her title, and wherein she agreed that the stipulated sum should be a charge upon the property. There has been much conflict in our decisions upon the vexed question of the right of a feme covert to create a charge upon her separate real estate, but the later cases have finally settled the rule to be that she can only charge her lands in the mode prescribed by'statute. This is the only…