This section is from the book "Handbook On The Law Of Real Property", by Earl P. Hopkins. Also available from Amazon: Handbook on the law of real property.
By the common law a married woman has no power to dispose of her lands by will,45 but in equity such a power is recognized as to all property coming under the jurisdiction of the court.46 In many states the statutes now give married women the same testamentary power as though unmarried,47 and in some states married women have greater power to devise their lands than if unmarried, since marriage removes the disability of infancy.48
 
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