Chap. 121.—An ACT to Amend the 11th Section of Chapter 128, Code of
1860, in Relation to the Release of an Insane Wife's Interest in Realty.

Approved February 28, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section eleven,
chapter one hundred and twenty-eight, Code of eighteen hun-
dred and sixty, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

“$11. If the husband of an insane wife wish to sell real
estate, and to have her right of dower therein released to the
purchaser, he may petition, for that purpose, the circuit.
county, or corporation court, of the county or corporation in
which such estate, or some part thereof, is; and if it appear tc
the court to be proper, an order may be made for the execu-
tion of such a.release by a commissioner to be appointed by
the court for the purpose, which release shall be effectual to
pass her said right of dower to the purchaser. But the court
shall make such order as in its opinion may be proper to se-
cure to her the same interest m the purchase money, and the
income thereof, that she would have had in the real estate and
income thereof, if it had not been sold; or, at the discretion of
the court, to secure to her out of the purchase money such
sum, in gross, a8 in the court's opinion may be sufficient to
compensate her for right of dower.”
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.