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A married Woman to be separately examined on the Surrender of an equitable Estate in Copyholds as if such Estate were legal.
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XC. And be it further enacted, That in every Case in which a Husband and Wife shall, either in or out of Court, surrender into the Hands of the Lord of a Manor any Lands held by Copy of Court Roll, Parcel of the Manor, and in which she alone, or she and her Husband in her Right, may have an equitable Estate, the Wife shall, upon such Surrender being made, be separately examined by the Person taking the Surrender in the same Manner as she would have been if the Estate to which she alone, or she and her Husband in her Right, may be entitled in such Lands were an Estate at Law instead of a mere Estate in Equity; and every such Surrender, when such Examination shall be taken, shall be binding on the married Woman and all Persons claiming under her; and all Surrenders heretofore made of Lands similarly circumstanced, where the Wife shall have been separately examined by the Person taking the Surrender, are hereby declared to be good and valid.
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