Kuhn v. Ogilvie

Citations

• 178 Pa. 303
• 35 A. 957
• 1896 Pa. LEXIS 1169

Syllabus

<p>Married women — Mortgage—Act of June 8, 1893.</p> <p>Although the act of J une 8,1898, P. L. 344, provides that a married woman “ may not become accommodation indorser, maker, guarantor or surety for another,” yet she may mortgage her estate as security for her husband’s debt, including future advances to him, or for the debt of another person.</p> <p>The general intent of the act of June 8,1893, is so plainly an enlargement of a married woman’s contractual capacity, that nothing less than explicit negative words should be construed as narrowing powers admittedly possessed before the passage of the act.</p>