Magid v. Beaver

“The wife is a feme sole as to her separate estate, unless controlled by the settlement. Every restriction upon her power in it must be complied with; but while the wife may contract, she may not bind her separate estate-by any contract of suretyship nor by any assumption of the debts of her husband, and any sale of her separate estate, made to a creditor of her husband in extinguishment of his debts, shall be absolutely void.” Code, § 53-503. “The contract of suretyship is one whereby a person obligates himself to pay the debt of another in consideration of credit or indulgence, or other…