CHAPTER 78.
AN ACT to amend Chapter 83 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Delaware, entitled "Of Conveyances."
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met,
SECTION 1. That Section 4, of Chapter 83, of the Revised Statutes of the State of Delaware, entitled "Of Conveyances," be and the same is hereby amended by adding to said section the following words, to wit: "In all cases of .sales of lands and tenements under judgments, or by trustees of idiots, lunatics, and persons of unsound mind, it shall be lawful for the wife of any defendant in such judgment, or of such idiot, lunatic, or person of unsound mind, to execute, acknowledge and deliver any conveyance,
release, or other instrument to bar her of dower in the land and tenements so sold without her husband being a party to such conveyance, release, or other instrument."
SECTION 2. That in all editions of the Revised Statutes hereafter to be published, the said section shall be printed as herein amended.
Passed at Dover, March 28, 1871.