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 1374 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 854. 1901. during their coverture, or hereafter by such wife solely or ply such g$“§,{‘g;,§;S§,}’§§,§ wife after such coverture has terminated, or shall hereafter be evised iisrigas cérediwrs of or bequeathed by such wife during such coverture or after such coverus n ‘ ture has terminated, the fact of such previous sale, conveyance, assignment, mortgage, lease, or delivery by such husband, directly or. indirectly, to is wife shall not hereafter 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 ang third. person, his heirs, executors, administrators, orassigns, than suc creditors would have had in case such interest or estate had been sold, conveyed, assigned, mortgaged, leased, transferred or delivered, or devised, or bequeathed b such husband directly to uch 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 heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns of the existence or of the possibilityor probability of the existence of any subsisting creditor or creditors of such husband. . m§y° "“¤**° “°°°“‘ Sec. 1153. No rnusrnn NECESSARY.-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 equit and have a trustee appointed, in which appointment the uses and, trusts for which the ` _ trustee holds the property shall be declared. . P'°¥"’“" °‘ “"f"· Sec. 1154. Pizormrrr or WIFE.·—M3T1‘l€d women shall hold all their property, of every description, for their separate use as fully as if they were unmarried, and shall have power to dispose of the same by _ -· deed, mortgalge, lease, will, gift, or otherwise, as fully as if they were __0*}'@§{,’·,,,,d,,, ,,g€_ unmarried: ro/vided, That no disposition of her real or personal property, or any portion thereof, by deed, mortgage, bill of sale, or other conveyance, shall be valid if made by a married woman under twenty-one years of age. u_;’gg*'$1{]d°{0;'§;°8n*g Sec. 1155. Powmz or w1FE_ TO TRADE, AND TO sun AND BE sUED.— besuku. Married women shall have power to engage in any business, and to contract, whether engaged Jin business or not, and to sue separately upon their contracts, and also to sue separately for the recovery, security, or protection of their prqperty, and for torts committed against them, as fully and freely as i they were unmarried; contracts may also be made with them, and they may also be sued separately upon their contracts, whether made before or during marriage, and for wrongs independent of contract committed by them before or during their marriage, as  as if they were unmarried, and upon judgments recovere against em execution may be issued as if they H¤sba¤d’¤1i¤bi1in·. were unmarried; nor shall any husband be liable upon any contract made by his wife in her own name and upon her own responsibilit , nor for any tort committed separately by er out of his presence with- §1qQ*ghw,fe,Sp0w_ out his participation or sanction: Provided, That no married woman erm comm:. shall have power to make any contract‘as surety or guarantor, or as . accommodation drawer, accepter, maker, or indorser. _ &§¢%gg ggggscg Sec. 1156. CONTRACTS on w1m.—Every contract made by a married mmsepmteamzss. woman which she has the power to make shall be deemed to be made _ with reference to her estate which is made her separate estate by this . chapter, and also her equitable separate estate, if any she has, as a source of credit to the extent of her power over the same, unless the contrary intent is expressed in the contract. `