ART. 51. ] HUSBAND AND WIFE.

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to be insured for her sole use, the life of her husband for any definite
period, or for the term of his natural life; and any husband may
cause his own life to be insured for the sole use of his wife, and may
also assign any policy of insurance upon his own life, to his wife,
for her sole use; and in case of the wife surviving her husband, the
sum or net amount of such insurance becoming due and payable by
the terms of the insurance, shall be payable to her for her own use,
free from the claims of the representatives of her husband, or any of
his creditors.

may be Insured
for sole benefit
of wife
34 Md 582, 15
Md 188, 42 Md
140, 414,

25. If the wife shall die before her husband, the amount of such
insurance may be made payable after her death to her children, or
descendants, for their use, and to their guardian if under age; and if
there be no children or descendants of the wife living at the time
of her death, to her legal representative.

Art 45, s 9
1840, c 212, s 2.
How insurance
may be made
payable

26. All policies of life insurance upon the life of any person
which may hereafter mature, and which have been or shall be taken
out for the benefit of or bond fide assigned to the wife or children,
or any relative dependent upon such person, or any creditor, shall
be vested in such wife or children, or other relative or creditor, free
and clear from all claims of the creditors of such insured person.

1878, c 200
Policies of
insurance free
from creditors'
claims

27. The receipt of any married woman for the payment of money
deposited by her before or after marriage, shall be a valid discharge
to any individual or corporation making such payment; provided.
that nothing contained in this section shall prevent any creditors of
the husband from attaching the same, or restraining the payment by
injunction, if the deposit were made in fraud of creditors.

Art 45, s 10
1853, c 3 IS
Receipt of
married women
good for
deposits.

28. In all cases, where leases for a definite term or for a term of
years renewable forever, have been, or may hereafter be made to a
married woman, and the lent therein stipulated to be paid, shall be
in arrear and unpaid for the space of ninety days, it shall be lawful
for the landlord to levy said rents by distress, in the same manner
as if the lessee was a feme sole; and in case of no sufficient distress
being found on said premises, to make such re-entry, or bring such
action for recovery of the demised premises as he or she might do if
the lessee were feme sole, and had covenanted for the payment of
said rents, and to suffer such re-entry to be made.

1867, c 223, s 1.
. Distress for
rent, re-entry
authorized
under leases
to married
women.

29. In all deeds hereafter made to married women of real estate
or chattels real, it shall be competent for the grantee or lessee to
bind herself and her assigns, by any covenant running with or re-
lating to said real estate or chattels real, the same as if she was a

Id s 2.
Married women
empowered to
covenant.

feme sole.
30. Any married woman may convey her real or personal prop-
erty, if her husband joins in the conveyance, whether the convey-
ance be absolute or by way of mortgage, and she may execute and
acknowledge any deed, mortgage, or bill of sale in the same manner
as other grantors or bargainers without any private examination or
other ceremony, and she may relinquish her dower in any real estate
by the joint deed of herself and husband, or by her separate deed.

Art 45, s 11
1842, c 293, s 5,
1856, c 154, s 94
How married
women to
convoy
17 Md 352, 18
Md 305, 19 Md
121, 20 Md 271,
4/4, 35 Md 188,
38 Md 225, 40
Md 387, 41 Md
639, 42 Md. 140,
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