Chap. 464.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2,295 of the code in rela-
tion to the liability of the corpus of the equitable separate estate of married
women for their contracts.

Approved February 2, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
ion twenty-two hundred and ninety-five of the code be amended and
e-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2295. Liability of separate estates of married women for thei
ontracts.—Every contract hereafter made by a married woman
vhich she has the power to make shall be deemed to be made with
eference to her estate, which is made her separate estate by this
hapter as a source of credit, and every such contract shall be
leemed as intended to be made with reference to her equitable sep
Yate estate also, if any she has, as a source of credit to the extent of
her power over the same unless the contrary intention is expressed
in the contract; and in the enforcement of every such contract against her
equitable separate estate a court of equity may in any case subject, to the
extent of her power over the same and of her interest therein, the corpus of
any real estate as well as the corpus of any personal estate settled to
her separate use, but the corpus of such real estate shall not be sub-
jected by a sale of the same, or any part thereof, unless it is ad-
mitted or be made to appear that the rents and profits of such real
estate will not be sufficient to discharge the liabilities of such estate
within five years; provided that if the contract be a covenant or
warranty in such a writing as is mentioned in section twenty-five
bundred and two, it shall be subject to the provisions of said
section.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.