Husband and wife shall not contract with each other, so as to entitle the one to claim or receive any compensation from the other for work and labor, and any contract between them whereby one shall claim or shall receive compensation from the other for services rendered, shall be void. It shall not be lawful for the husband to rent the wife’s plantation, houses, horses, mules, wagons, carts, or other implements, and with them, or with any of her means, to operate and carry on business in his own name or on his own account, but all business done with the means of the wife by the husband shall be deemed and held to be on her account and for her use, and by the husband as her agent and manager in business, as to all persons dealing with him without notice, unless the contract between the husband and wife which changes this relation, be evidenced by writing, subscribed by them, duly acknowledged, and filed with the chancery clerk of the county where such business may be done, to be recorded as other instruments.
Miss. Code Ann. § 93-3-7
Restrictions on contracts between husband and wife
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case 495 So. 2d 481 - Thomas v. State (1986)
Most recently applied in 495 So. 2d 481 - Thomas v. State (September 1986)
Codes, 1880, § 1177; 1892, § 2293; 1906, § 2521; Hemingway’s 1917, § 2055; 1930, § 1943; 1942, § 454.
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