ART. 45.] HUSBAND AND WIFE. 799

closure of the height of at least seven feet, constructed of palings
not less than six inches in width, with proper gates, securely
fastened and guarded at all times, around the said hospital and
hospital grounds; and shall adopt and enforce all other reasonable
and necessary safeguards to prevent lunatic patients, who may be
confined or under treatment in said hospital, from escaping or
wandering beyond the limits of said grounds and enclosure.

ARTICLE XLV.

HUSBAND AND WIFE.

1. Property of wife protected from husband's debts; conveyance from husband to wife. 2. Wife to hold her property to her separate use; devise; convey- ance, on what contracts wife liable. 3. Not necessary for wife to have trustee. 4. How to sue. 6. Dower in husband's lands held by equitable title. 6. Husband's curtesy in wife's lands held by equitable title. 7. Wife's earnings, how held, wife trading as feme sole; rights and liabilities of. 8. Insurance on life of husband. 9. Such insurance protected from husband's creditors.

10. May be payable to children if wife dies before husband 11. Wife's receipt valid for moneys deposited by her. 12. How wife may convey her prop- erty; relinquishment of dower by wife under legal age 13. Suit by husband in right of wife; declaration. 14. Leases to married women, distress; suit by landlord on covenants. 15. Wife may make binding covenants in deeds and leases. 16. To be bound by covenants run- ning with the land. 17. Husband not liable on wife's ante- nuptial debts. 18. Wife liable on such debts, how re- coverable. 19. Wife may appoint attorney when sued upon such debts.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 45, sec. 1. 1841, ch. 161. 1842, ch. 293, secs. 1-2. 1858,
ch. 245, sec. 1. 1874, ch. 57.

1. The property, real and personal, belonging to a woman at
the time of her marriage, and all property which she may acquire
or receive after her marriage, by purchase, gift, grant, devise,