White v. Pratt

Candler, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Under Code § 53-503, there are three things which a married woman having a separate estate cannot lawfully do. She cannot bind *893her separate estate by any contract of suretyship, nor can she assume the debts of her husband, nor can she pledge or sell her separate estate to a creditor of her husband to extinguish his debts. If she does any of these things, the transaction is absolutely void. These are the only restrictions put upon her in dealing with her separate estate, and outside of them she stands upon the same footing as a man or a…