Excerpt from Real Estate Record, Guide to Buyers and Sellers of Real Estate: How to Draw a Contract And it is, perhaps, not necessary to require a husband to join with his wife in executing a deed (see p. In view of the statute authorizing a wife to make a will or sell her real estate without the consent of her husband; but until the husband's right by the curtesy is explicitly abolished by law, situations can arise in which a careful conveyancer may be in doubt as to whether there may not yet be a husband living who could claim a life estate in property his Wife had conveyed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.