1276 HUBRAND AND WIFE. [ART. 45

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
husband.

1888, art. 45, sec. 3. 1860, art. 45, sec. 3. 1853, ch. 245, 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 prop-
erty; 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.
Barton v. Barton, 32 Md. 214.

1898, ch. 457, sec. 4.

4. Married women shall hold all their property of every
description for their separate use, as fully as if they were
unmarried, and shall have all the power to dispose of by deed,
mortgage, lease, will or any other instruments that husbands
have to dispose of their property, and no more; provided, 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 eighteen
years of age, unless her husband shall unite therein.

Ibid. sec. 5.

5. Married women shall have power to engage in any busi-
ness, and to contract, whether engaged in business or not, and
to sue upon their contracts, and also to sue for the recovery,
security or protection of their property, and for torts committed
against them, as fully as if 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 fully as if they were unmar-
ried; and upon judgments recovered against them, execution
may be issued as if they were unmarried; nor shall any hus-
band be liable upon any contract made by his wife in her own
name and upon her own responsibility, nor for any tort com-
mitted separately by her out of his presence, without his
participation or sanction.
Wolf v. Frank, 92 Md 143.