1. A wife may contract, but she can not "bind her separate estate by any contract of suretyship." Code § 53-503. "A deed given by a married woman, in pursuance of a scheme by which she pledges her individual property as security for the debt of another, is void in toto. Civil Code (1910), § 3007 [now § 53-503]; Central Bank &c. Corp. v. Almand, 135 Ga. 231 (69 SE 111...
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