law: Married Women's Property Act, 1874
  8. Wife's liability for postnuptial debts
  If a married woman (whether married before or
  
  after the first day of January, 1866) possesses separate property, and if any
  
  person enters into a contract with her with reference to such property, or on
  
  the faith that her obligation arising out of such contract will be satisfied
  
  out of her separate property, such person shall be entitled to sue her, and, to
  
  the extent of her separate property, to recover against her whatever he might
  
  have recovered in such suit had she been unmarried at the date of the contract
  
  and continued unmarried at the execution of the decree:
  9[Provided that nothing herein
  
  contained shall-
  (a) entitle such person to recover anything by
  
  attachment and sale or otherwise out of any property which has been transferred
  
  to a woman or for her benefit on condition that she shall have no power during
  
  her marriage to transfer or charge the same or her beneficial interest therein,
  
  as
  (b) affect the
  
  liability of a husband for debts contracted by his wife's agency expressed or
  
  implied.]