55-39 - Rights of wife, etc., not affected by husband's acts only. - Virginia Statutes

§ 55-39. Rights of wife, etc., not affected by husband's acts only.

No conveyance or other act suffered or done by the husband only of any landwhich is the inheritance of his wife shall be or make any discontinuancethereof, or be prejudicial to the wife or her heirs, or to any having rightor title to the same by her death, but they may respectively enter into suchland, according to their right and title therein, as if no such act had beendone.

(Code 1919, § 5442.)