354 HUSBAND AND WIFE. [ART. 45

1892, ch. 586. 1898, ch. 457.

2. Whenever any interest or estate of any kind in any
property, real, personal or mixed, situate, lying or being within
this State, has been or shall hereafter be sold, conveyed, assigned
mortgaged, leased, transferred or delivered by any husband,
directly or indirectly to his wife, and has been or shall hereafter
be subsequently sold', conveyed, assigned, mortgaged, leased, trans-
ferred or delivered by such wife and husband during their cover-
ture, or by such wife after such coverture has terminated, or has
been or shall hereafter be subsequently devised or bequeathed by
such wife during such coverture or after such coverture has term-
inated; the fact of such previous sale, conveyance, assignment,
mortgage, lease or delivery by such husband, directly or
indirectly to his wife, shall not hereafter be deemed or taken at
Jaw or in equity, to have given, preserved or reserved, nor to
give, preserve or reserve to any subsisting creditor of such hus-
band, by reason of any debt or obligation, claim or demand what-
soever, any other or greater right, lien or cause of action against
such interest or estate, or against any third person, his heirs,

executors, administrators or assigns, than such creditors would
have had in case such interest or estate had been sold, conveyed,
assigned, mortgaged, leased, transferred or delivered, or devised,

or bequeathed by such husband directly or indirectly to such
third person. And the fact of such previous sale, conveyance,

assignment, mortgage, lease or delivery by such husband, directly
or indirectly, to his wife, or the recital thereof, in any instrument
of writing whatever, shall not hereafter be deemed or taken at
law or in equity, to give or impart, nor to have given or imparted
notice to^any third person, his heir, executors, administrators or
assigns, of the existence, or of the possibility or probability of
the existence of any subsisting creditor or creditors of such hus-
band.

P. G. L., (1888, ) art 46, sec. 3. 1898, ch. 457.

3. It shall not be necessary for a married woman to have a
trustee to secure to her the sole and separate use of her property;
but if she desires it, she may make a trustee by deed, or she may
apply to a court of equity and have a trustee appointed, in which
appointment the uses and trusts for which the trustee holds the
property shall be declared.