This  renunciation  may  be  made  either  in  the  act  by  which  the
husband  sells,  alienates  or  hypothecates  the  immoveable,  or  by  a  separ-
ate and  subsequent  act. — C.  S.  L.  C,  ch.  37,  sec.  52,  §  1,  sec  54 ;  25  Vic-
toria (1862),  ch.  11,  sec.  8.  [II.  455.]

DECISIONS  : — 1.  A  married  woman,  still  a  minor,  may  under  the  authority
of  her  hushand  only,  ratify  a  deed  of  exchange  made  hy  tiie  husband  of  a  pro-
perty liable  to  her  douaire  prefix  and  matrimonial  rights,  such  rights  being  of  a
moreable  character  only.  The  authority  of  the  husband  for  the  purpose  of  this
deed  of  ratification  is  sufficiently  apparent  by  the  declaration  of  the  wife  that  she
is  "  dClment  assisUe  et  cPabondani  auioris^"  without  stating  by  whom,  the
husband  being  a  party  to  the  deed  and  declaring  after  the  reading  thereof  that
he  cannot  sign. — Upon  a  deed  of  exchange  in  like  cases  there  cannot  be  IMon
with  respect  to  the  wife,  the  mortgage  for  her  matrimonial  rights  being  trana-
ferred  ftom  one  property  to  the  other. — Q.  B. — MitrUSe  S  Braultj  10  L.  C  R,  p.
157,  4  L.  C.  J.,  p.  60.
2.  The  4th  Vic,  c.  3,  s.  36,  does  not  prohibit  a  wife  hrom  renouncing  to  the
exercise  of  her  hypothec  for  matrimonial  rights  in  property  sold  by  her  husband,
and  such  renunciation  is  valid  and  binding  though  subsequently  she  obtains  %
eiparation  de  biens  from  her  husband. — ^Q.  B,^-~Oorgendiire  dk  Thibaudeau,  1  R.
C,  p.  478.
3.  A  wife  may  legally  renounce  to  dower,  under  authority  of  a  judge  when

her  husband  is  interdicted  for  insanity .—Q.  B Dufresnay  A  Armairong,  14  L.
C.  J.,  p.  253.
