This section is from the book "The Law Of Contracts", by William Herbert Page. Also available from Amazon: Commercial Contracts: A Practical Guide to Deals, Contracts, Agreements and Promises.
Unless restrained by statute a married woman may appoint an agent, or an attorney in fact,1 to make any contract or conveyance which she could make herself. If the contract is one which she cannot make herself, she cannot make it by an agent.2 Where a married woman cannot charge her general estate she cannot appoint an agent to charge it.3
 
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