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[s. 13 cont.]
Married
woman as executrix
or trustee.
c. 75, s. 18.
Married Women's Property.
respect to the property in dispute and as to the costs of and consequent on the application as he thinks fit, or may direct such application to stand over and any inquiry touching the matters in question to be made in such manner as he thinks fit: Provided always that any such order shall be subject to appeal in the same way as an order made by the judge in a suit pending in the said court would be: Provided also that any such application or any such appeal may be heard by the judge in his private room or by the Supreme Court in camera as the circumstances of the case may require: Provided also that any such bank, corporation, company, public body or society as aforesaid shall in the matter of any such application for the purposes of costs or otherwise be treated as a stakeholder only.
14. A married woman who is an executrix or administratrix alone or jointly with any other person or persons of the estate of any deceased person, or a trustee alone or jointly as aforesaid of property subject to any trust, may sue or be sued, and may transfer or join in transferring any such annuity or deposit as aforesaid, or any sum forming part of any stocks or funds transferable as aforesaid, or any share, stock, debenture, debenture stock or other benefit, right, claim or other interest of or in any such corporation, company, public body or society in that character, without her husband, as if she were a feme sole.
Saving of existing settlements, and power to make future settlements.
c. 75, s. 19.
15. Nothing in this Ordinance shall interfere with or affect any settlement or agreement for a settlement made or to be made, whether before or after marriage, respecting the property of any married woman, or shall interfere with or render inoperative any restriction against anticipation at present attached or to be hereafter attached to the enjoyment of any property or income by a woman under any settlement, agreement for a settlement, will or other instrument; but no restriction against anticipation contained in any settlement or agreement for a settlement of a woman's own property to be made or entered into by herself shall have any validity against debts contracted by her before marriage, and no settlement or agreement for a settlement shall have any greater force or validity against creditors of such woman than a like settlement or agreement for a settlement made or entered into by a man would have against his creditors.
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