law: Married Women's Property Act, 1874
  9. Husband not liable for wife's  antenuptial debts
  A husband married after the thirty-first day
  
  of December, 1865 shall not by reason only of such marriage be liable to the
  
  debts of his wife contracted before marriage, but the wife shall be liable to
  
  be sued for, and shall, to the extent of her separate property, be liable to
  
  satisfy such debts as if she had continued unmarried:
  
  
  Proviso .- Provided
  
  that nothing contained in this section shall 10[***] invalidate any contract
  
  into which a husband may, before the passing of this Act, have entered in
  
  consideration of his wife's antenuptial debts.