ARTICLE 45.
HUSBAND AND WIFE.
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1. Wife's property not liable for hus-
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11. Receipt of any married woman may
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band's debt. Property passing from
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be a valid discharge to individual or
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one spouse to the other may not
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corporation making payment.
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prejudice rights of subsisting cred-
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12. How husband and wife may relinquish
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itors, but creditors must assert
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interest or dower respectively.
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claims within three years.
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13. Grant and conveyance of land where
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2. Rights of creditors in cases of convey-
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married man or woman is insane or
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ance from husband to wife, directly
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has been absent or unheard of for
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or indirectly.
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seven years.
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3. Trustee not necessary to married wo-
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14. Husband not liable for ante-nuptial
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man for security and separate use
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debts of wife. Liability of wife
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of her property. May. have trustee
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therefor as if she were unmarried.
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if she desires.
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15. Proceedings at law or in equity may
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4. Married women may hold property as
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be taken against wife by joining hus-
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if unmarried; same power to con-
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band thereto as defendant. .Hus-
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vey as husbands.
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band's estate not liable.
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5. Married women may engage in busi-
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16. Married woman may appoint attorney
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ness, contract, sue and be sued upon
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to act for her.
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contracts and for torts, as if unmar-
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17. Landlord may levy rent by distress
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ried.
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against a married woman, lessee, as
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6. Rights of widow to dower in lands held
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if she were feme sole. Re-entry for
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by legal or equitable title by hus-
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non-payment of rent.
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band during coverture.
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18. Married woman, as grantee or lessee
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7. Husbands shall acquire estate for life
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of deeds of real estate or chattels
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in one-third of wife's lands; hus-
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real, competent to bind herself as if
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band's dower.
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she were feme sole by covenant run-
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8. Married woman may insure life of hus-
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ning with or relating to such estate.
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band for her sole use. Husband may
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19. Husband in action to recover in right
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cause his life to be insured for wife's
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of his wife after her death may de-
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sole use. Such insurance to be free
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clare how the right accrued to his
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from all claims of husband's repre-
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wife and devolved on him.
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sentatives or his creditors.
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20. Married woman may contract with
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9. Policies taken out or assigned for bene-
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husband or form co-partnership
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fit of wife, children or dependent
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with him or with others. Her lia-
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relative to be free from claims of
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bility on such contracts.
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creditors of insured.
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21. Husband liable for debts validly con-
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10. After wife's death, how such insurance
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tracted by wife in his name as at
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payable.
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common law.
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An. Code, 1924, sec. 1. 1912, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1892, ch. 267.
1898, ch. 457. 1929, ch. 398.
1. The property, real and personal, belonging to a woman at the time
of her marriage, and all the property which she may acquire or receive
For forms of deeds and acknowledgments by husband and wife, see art. 21, secs. 73
and 87.
As to competency of husband or wife of accused to testify in criminal cases, see art.
35, sec. 4.
As to right of husband to sue for slander of his wife, see art. 88, sec. 4.
As to mechanics' liens oh buildings erected by husband on wife's land, see art. 63,
sec. 10.
As to marriage, see art. 62.
As to prevention of wife from pledging husband's credit, see art. 16, sec. 53.
