In Michigan, a married woman's property at the marriage and afterwards acquired in any way is her estate free of her husband's debts, and may be contracted about, sold, transferred, mortgaged, conveyed, devised, and bequeathed as if she were unmarried, Howell's Annotated Statutes, § 6295. Any trustee of hers may convey to her all or a part of the property or the income for her separate use, § 6296. She may sue and be sued touching her sole property, as if unmarried; and where the husband's property cannot be sold or encumbered without her consent in due form or is exempt from judicial process, she may sue in her own name, § 6297. Her husband is not liable on her property contracts, but she may be sued on her contracts where he is not liable or refuses to perform, § 6298. All contracts made between persons in contemplation of marriage remain in force after marriage, § 6299. If he deserts her or is in the state-prison without providing for her, she may, if twenty-one years of age, by leave of court, convey her real estate or dispose of any undisposed-of personal estate brought to the husband by the marriage, §§ 6264, 6275. She may also receive such personal estate as is due the husband in her right, and give a valid discharge, § 6265. All such proceeds she may use as if her own and unmarried, and while deserted, she may contract in her own name, sue and be sued, make and execute instruments in her own name, all of which shall be as binding as if the marriage took place thereafter, §§ 6266-6276. When her real estate is taken by eminent domain, the compensation may be so invested as to afford the same benefit as the undamaged estate would have, § 6281. If she comes from another State without her husband, she may act in all respects as if unmarried; and when her husband comes, the effect is as if the marriage took place at his arrival, §§ 6283-6285. She may insure his life for her benefit up to $300 premium, and may make such insurance payable, if she dies before him, to her children or dispose of it by will, §§ 6300, 6301. She may execute a power, if of age, by grant or devise, without the husband's concurrence, unless in terms prohibited, § 5627. If entitled to an estate in fee and empowered to dispose of it during the marriage, she may create any estate, as if unmarried, § 5646. If she dies intestate, one third of her personal estate goes to the husband, and the remainder to her children; but if one child only, one half to him; if no children or issue, nor parents, nor brothers or sisters or issue, the whole goes to him. If he dies intestate, she has corresponding rights, § 5847. A homestead of forty acres without, or a lot in, a town, city, or village, up to $1,500, is exempt from judicial sale, § 7721. Her acknowledgment to a deed or other instrument affecting real property, and those taken since Aug. 4, 1875, may be taken as if she were unmarried, §§ 5662, 5662 a. Executions against husband and wife jointly for her torts shall be satisfied from her property only, § 7714.

In Minnesota, all of a married woman's property, owned before or after marriage, continues her separate property, and she may receive, take, hold, use, and enjoy it and its profits and all avails of her contracts and industry free from her husband's control and debts, as if unmarried, General Statutes of 1891, § 3865. She is bound by her contracts and responsible for her torts, and her property is liable therefor, as if she were unmarried. She may contract, as if unmarried, but not to sell or convey real estate other than by a mortgage to secure purchase money or a lease for three years or less, unless the husband joins, and no curtesy attaches against such a mortgage; but after a valid divorce the husband's joinder is unnecessary, § 3866. The husband and wife may not contract with each other touching real estate, but may in respect to all other matters, as if they were not married. But where rights of creditors and bona fide purchasers conic in question, they are held to have notice of each other's debts and contracts, § 3867« Antenuptial settlements are unaffected, and the husband is not exempted from liability for her torts, § 3868. She is not liable for his debts, nor is he for hers Other than for necessaries, § 3869. If she is deserted by him for a year or is entitled to a divorce, she may, by decree of court, bar his curtesy and have power to dispose of her lands, as if unmarried, § 3870. If a married woman deposits in a savings bank, the trustees may repay her, and her receipt shall be a discharge as against third persons, § 2381. She may sue and be sued alone, as if unmarried, \\ lure the husband would not be a necessary party aside from the marriage relation, § 1724. And in his name when he has deserted her, § 1725. A homestead of eighty acres without, or a lot within, a town of over 5,000 inhabitants, or half an acre in a lesser town, is exempt from judicial sale. The surviving husband or wife is entitled to the homestead of the deceased for life, free of debts, § 3941. A married woman may dispose of her property by will, as if unmarried, § 5627. If the husband or wife dies intestate leaving issue, the survivor is entitled absolutely to an undivided third of all real estate, free of any disposition of the same to which he did not assent, but subject proportionally to debts; if without kindred, to the whole of such real estate, § 5677. All uudisposed-of personal estate is administered as if real estate, § 5691.

In Mississippi, a married woman has the same capacity to acquire, hold, manage, control, use, enjoy, and dispose of all property, contract about it. bind herself personally, sue and be sued, with all the rights and liabilities thereof, as if unmarried, Revised Code of 1880, c. 42, § 1167. Husband and wife may sue each other, § 1168. She may dispose of her estate by will, as if unmarried, § 1169. Dower and curtesy are abolished, § 1170. If she dies with issue, leaving estate undisposed of, it descends to her husband and descendants in equal parts; if without issue, the husband inherits the whole, § 1171. If she fails to make satisfactory provision for her husband in her will, he may renounce the same and become entitled to the same share as if she had died intestate, except that, if she leaves no issue, he shall be entitled to only one half of her estate, § 1172. If her will contains no provision for him, he has the same share as in the case of an unsatisfactory provision, § 1173. Her provision by will for him is in bar of any share of her estate, unless otherwise expressed, § 1171. If the husband has separate property at the death of the wife, testate, equal to his share of her estate, he cannot renounce; but if less, he may have the difference made up to him; or if only one fifth, the whole, § 1175. If the husband appropriates her property or its income, he shall be her debtor for a year; but if she permits him to use the income, or her estate for family support, he is not chargeable, § 1176. They cannot contract with each other for compensation for services rendered, nor can he rent or carry on business with his wife's plantation, houses, cattle, or tools, or with any of her means, but all business so done is on her account by him as agent as to persons without notice, unless written contract to the contrary is executed by them, acknowledged and recorded, § 1177. No transfer of goods or lands between them is valid against third persons unless in writing, acknowledged and recorded, possession of property not being equivalent to record, § 1178.