Mrs. Leary is very able, and I am sure her work is good! We must also remember that when situations demanded that the court recognize a power to buy, sell and trade, women who were widows, divorced, had an annulment, or whose husbands had abandoned them, had disappeared, or had "gone west" and had not returned or contacted the family for long periods, were declared "feme sole traders" and dealt in the same fashion as did men. Notice however, though the practice was seen in many states, some limited that power to dealing in personalty, but not real estate, SC for example. Paul