LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 457.
AN ACT to repeal Article XLY of the Code of Public
General Laws, title " Husband and Wife," and to re-enact
the same with amendments.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

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land, That Article XLY of the Code of Public General Laws,
title "Husband and Wife," be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as follows :
1. The property, real and personal, belonging to a woman at

Repeal.

the time of her marriage, and all the property which she may
acquire or receive after her marriage, by purchase, gift, grant,
devise, bequest, descent, in the course of distribution, by her
own skill, labor or personal exertions, or in any other manner,
shall be protected from the debts of the husband, and not in
any way be liable for the payment thereof ; provided, that no
acquisition of property passing to the wife from the husband,
after coverture, shall be valid if the same has been made or
granted to her in prejudice of the rights of his subsisting credi-
tors, who, however, must assert their claims within three years
after the acquisition of the property by the wife, or be absolutely
barred, and for the purpose of asserting their rights under this
section, claims of creditors of the husband not yet due and
matured shall be considered as due and matured.
2. That whenever any interest or estate of any kind in any
property, real, personal or mixed, situate, lying or being with-

Wife's
property
not liable.

in 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, convened, assigned, mortgaged,
leased, transferred or delivered by such wife and husband
during their coverture, 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 terminated ; the fact of such previous
sale, conveyance, assignment, mortgage, lease or delivery by
such husband, directly or indirectly to his wife, shall not here-
after be deemed or taken at law or in equity, to have given,
preserved or reserved, nor to give, preserve or reserve to any
subsisting creditor of such husband, by reason of any debt or
obligation, claim or demand whatsoever, 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

Conveyance
by husband
to wife, etc.