This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol3 Contracts Agency", by Albert H. Putney. Also see: Popular Law-Dictionary.
Following the rule of the common law that a woman on marriage was deprived generally of the power to contract and to exercise authority over her own property, her previous appointment of an agent was by the marriage thereby revoked. But under the various enabling acts, the rule of the common law in this particular is also wiped out, the married woman by statutory law, having won the right to hold and control her own property.29
 
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