In Virginia, all the property, including rights of action, possessed by a woman at the time of her marriage, or acquired afterwards in any manner, is her separate estate, but no right of action against her husband for injury to person or reputation, whether committed before or after marriage, Code of 1887, § 2284. Her separate estate is not subject to the use, control, or disposal of her husband, nor is it liable for his debts, § 2285. She may control, use, encumber, convey, devise, bequeath her separate estate as if unmarried, but may not by her sole act deprive her husband of curtesy, § 2286. She may engage in trade and her earnings are separate estate, § 2287. She may make contracts in regard to her trade or separate estate, and may sue and be sued, and there are the same remedies thereon as if she were sole, §§ 2288, 2295. Judgments against her may be enforced against her separate estate, § 2289. Her husband is not liable for her debts, § 2290. While a minor her separate estate may on petition be put in the hands of a receiver, §§ 2291, 2292. If the wife die intestate, her personal estate goes to her husband. If the husband die intestate leaving a widow and issue, she takes one third of the personalty; and if no issue, one half, § 2556.

In Washington Territory a married woman may acquire, hold, and dispose of property, and sue and be sued, as if unmarried, Hill's Statutes and Codes of 1891, § 1408. She has no more of disability in civil matters than the husband, and may equally in her own name appeal to the courts, § 1409. She has equal right to earnings and estate of children, § 1415. Her property at the marriage, and after acquired by gift, devise, or inheritance, and its income and profits, are free of her husband's debts and contracts, and she may manage, lease, sell, convey, encumber, and dispose of it by will precisely as her husband can, § 1398. If he gets control of it, she may sue for it as if unmarried, § 1411. She may receive and sue for her personal earnings, and may sue and be sued for the protection of her rights, as if unmarried, § 1402. Neither she, nor the rent or income of her property, is liable for his antenuptial debts, nor for his separate debts, § 1413. She may contract and enforce and be held by them as if unmarried, § 1410. Her property is jointly or separately liable for family expenses and children's education, § 1414. Property acquired by her other than by gift, devise, or inheritance, is community property, which personalty the husband manages and disposes of, but not more than one half by will, § 1399. He cannot dispose of community realty unless she joins, § 1400. On her death, one half of the community property goes to him, the other half being subject to her disposal by will. If without issue, the whole goes to him, § 1481. If separate from him, her earnings and accumulations, and those of minor children with her, are her separate property, § 1403. Dower and curtesy are abolished, § 1482. If she dies intestate with one child, he takes one half of her property; with more than one child, he takes one third; if without issue, but parents, he takes one half; if without issue or parents, or brother or sister, he takes the whole, § 1480.

In West Virginia, a married woman's property at the marriage, and conveyed to her other than by her husband, and its profits, is her sole property, as if unmar-ried, free from her husband's control and debts, Code of 1891, c. 56, §§ 1, 2. She may take property by gift, grant, devise, or descent from other than her husband, and hold, convey, and devise it and its profits as if unmarried, free from his debts and disposal; but unless apart from him he must join in her deed of conveyance, § 3. Her trustee on her written request may, by leave of court, convey her property to her, § 4. She may insure her husband's life up to $150 premium free of his debts, § 5. She may hold, enjoy, and dispose of a patent free of her husband's debts, § 7. She may receive and receipt for her deposits in a bank, § 8. She may be sued jointly with him for her antenuptial debt, but the judgment will bind her property alone. The husband is liable for her antenuptial debts only to the extent of her separate property acquired by him, § 10. She may not become surety for her husband in any way, § 11. She may charge her separate estate only for certain specified debts, § 12. She may sue and be sued alone concerning her separate property, when between her husband and herself, and when living apart from him, § 15. She may do business in her own name, and the property used, the profits and earnings realized, will be her separate property, free from the debts and control of her husband, § 13. If husband or wife die intestate leaving issue, the survivor takes one third the personalty; if no issue, the whole, c. 78, § 9.

In Wisconsin, a married woman's property at the marriage, including realty held jointly with her husband, is her separate property, with its profits, lire of his debts and disposal, Sanborn and Berry man's Statutes of 1SS9, §§ 2340, 2341. She may receive property by inheritance, gift, grant, devise, or bequest other than from her husband, and hold, convey, and devise it and its profits as if unmarried, free from his debts and disposal, § 2342. Her personal earnings, except those from her husband, are her own, free of his debts and control, § 2343. If deserted or unprovided for, she may do business in her own name, and collect the profits and her and her minor children's earnings, and apply them to the family support, free from his debts or control, § 2344. She may sue and be sued touching her property or personal earnings, and judgment enforced against her property, as if she were unmarried, § 2345. She is liable, as if unmarried, for antenuptial debts contracted after April 3, 1872, and her husband is not liable, § 2346. She may insure her husband or another person for her benefit up to $150 premium, § 2347. She may, if of age, convey her real estate, as if unmarried, § 2221. She may, if eighteen years of age, dispose of all her real and personal estate by will, §§ 2277, 2281. Her deposits in a savings bank and profits are her own solely, payable to her, and her receipt therefor is a discharge, c. 94, § 2020. If she dies intestate, without issue, her real and personal property goes to her husband, c. 101, §§ 2270, 3935.