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trustee or new trustees thereof, and may make provision for the appointment of a new trustee or new trustees thereof, and for the investment of the moneys payable under any such policy.
(6) In default of any such appointment of a trustee, such policy, immediately on its being effected, shall vest in the insured and his or her legal personal representatives, in trust for the purposes aforesaid.
(7) The receipt of a trustee or trustees duly appointed, or in default of any such appointment, or in default of notice to the insurer, the receipt of the legal personal representative of the insured, shall be a discharge to the insurer for the sum secured by the policy, or for the value thereof, in whole or in part.
14. Section 19 of the Wills Ordinance (which provides for the cases in which a will is to be construed as speaking from the death of the testator) shall apply to the will of a married woman made during coverture whether she is or is not possessed of or entitled to any property at the time of making it, and such will shall not require to be re-executed or republished after the death of her husband.
Will of married woman.
(Cap. 30.) 1893 c. 63, s. 3.
married infants. 1925 c. 20, s. 21.
15. A married infant shall have power to give valid receipts Receipts by for all income (including statutory accumulations of income made during minority) to which the infant may be entitled in like manner as if the infant were an adult,
Power of
16. A married woman, whether an infant or not, shall have power, as if she were unmarried and an adult, by deed, to appoint attorney of an attorney on her behalf for the purpose of executing any deed or doing any other act which she might herself execute or do.
married woman. 1925 c. 20, s. 129.
17. For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that Savings. nothing in this Ordinance-
(a) renders the husband of a married woman liable in respect of any contract entered into, or debt or obligation incurred, by her after the marriage in respect of which he would not have been liable if this Ordinance had not been passed; (b) exempts the husband of a married woman from liability in respect of any contract entered into, or debt or obligation (not being a debt or obligation arising out of the commission of a tort) incurred, by her after the marriage in respect of which he would have been liable if this Ordinance had not been passed;
(c) prevents a husband and wife from acquiring, holding, and disposing of, any property jointly or as tenants in common, or from rendering themselves, or being rendered, jointly liable in respect of any tort, contract, debt or obligation, and of suing and being sued either in tort or in contract or otherwise, in like manner as if they were not married; (d) prevents the exercise of any joint power given to a husband and wife.
1935 c. 30, s. 4(2).