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death or not, but such estate shall not operate to the prejudice of any
claim for the purchase money of such lands, or other lien on the same;
nor shall any conveyance of such lands by the wife alone bar such estate
of the widower therein, and this estate shall be known as the widower's
dower, and the statute and common law of this State as to the widower's
dower shall be construed to be applicable to this estate unless such con-
struction would be unreasonable.*

Section 4 removes the limitation on the capacity of the wife to convey
without her husband, but such conveyance is subject to any rights be has
acquired by reason of the marital relation; if the wife takes property the
title to which is subject to limitations imposed by a statute, a conveyance
by her alone pursuant to a later statute is not void, but merely subject to
the conditions in effect during the existence of the prior statute. Beinbrink
v. Fox, 121 Md. 112.

To the third note to this section on page 1172 of volume 1 of the Anno-
tated Code, add the case of Beinbrink v. Fox, 121 Md. 112.

To the sixth note to this section on page 1172 of volume 1 of the Anno-
tated Code, add the case of Beinbrink v. Fox, 121 Md. 112.

See notes to this section (as it stood in 1911) in volume 1 of the Anno-
tated Code.

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Workmen's compensation benefits are not assignable nor subject to execu-
tion, or attachment—article 101, section 52.

*Section 2 of the act of 1914, chapter 516, provides that said act shall not be
construed to affect and rights, titles or interests vested under this section prior:
to said act.

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