Duran v. Judson

Deen, Judge.

1. At common law women labored under the disability of coverture and could not become either a surety or guarantor for another. By statute many states removed the contractual disability, with the result that women could enter into contracts of suretyship and guaranty with the same freedom as other contracts. 41 CJS 670 et seq., Husband and Wife, § 188. In Georgia from the time of the Married Woman’s Act (Ga. L. 1866, p. 146) to the amendment of Code § 53-503 (Ga. L. 1969, pp. 72, 73) women had the right to contract generally but not to enter into a contract of suretyship.…