o receive degrees from Law and Medical Schools; also one allowing a
married woman to "subscribe for, withdraw or transfer stock of
building, homestead or loan associations, and to deposit funds and
withdraw the same without the assistance and intervention of her
husband." This law was secured by these associations to protect their
own interests.

In 1896 the same privilege was extended in regard to depositing money
in savings banks and withdrawing it, which a married woman could not
do up to this time.

The laws of Louisiana for the most part are a survival of the
Napoleonic Code:

Art. 25. Men are capable of all kinds of engagements and
functions, unless disqualified by reasons and causes applying to
particular individuals. Women can not be appointed to any public
office, nor perform any civil functions, except those which the
law specially declares them capable of exercising. Widows and
unmarried women of age may bind themselves as sureties or
indorsers for other persons, in the same manner and with the same
validity as men who are of full age.

Art. 81. If a father has disappeared, leaving minor children born
during his marriage, the mother shall take care of them, and
shall exercise all the rights of her husband with respect to
their education and the administration of their estate.

Art. 82. If the mother contracts a second marriage, she can not
preserve her superintendence of her children, except with the
consent of a family meeting composed of the relations or friends
of the father. [Failing to call this family meeting, she forfeits
also her right to appoint a guardian at her death.]

Art. 121. The wife can not appear in court without the authority
of her husband, although she may be a public merchant,[295] or
possess her property separate from her husband.

Art. 122. The wife, even when she is separate in estate from the
husband, can not alienate, grant, mortgage, acquire, either by
gratuitous or encumbered title, unless her husband concurs in the
act, or yields his consent in writing.

Art. 126. A married woman over the age of twenty-one years, may,
by and with the authorization of her husband, and with the
sanction of the Judge, borrow money or contract debts for her
separate benefit and advantage, and to secure the same, grant
mortgages or other securities