Vict.  c.  144,  s.  6).  The  court,  on  dissolving  the  marriage,
may  order  the  husband  to  secure  to  the  wife  such  gross  sum
of  money  or  such  annual  sum  of  money  for  any  term  not
exceeding  her  own  life  (or  such  monthly  or  weekly  sums
during  their  joint  lives,  29  &  30  Vict.  c.  32,  si),  as  having
regard  to  her  fortune  (if  any),  to  the  ability  of  the  husband
and  to  the  conduct  of  the  parties  it  shall  deem  reasonable,  ana


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for  that  purpose  may  refer  it  to  any  one  of  the  conveyancing
counsel  of  the  Court  of  Chancery  to  settle  and  approve  of  a
proper  deed  or  instrument  to  be  executed  by  all  necessary
parties ;  and  the  said  (Divorce)  Court  may,  if  it  shall  see  fit,
suspend  the  pronouncing  of  its  decree  until  such  deed  shall
have  been  duly  executed.     20  &  21  Vict.  c.  85,  b.  32.
As  to  the  powers  of  this  court  to  deal  with  marriage  settle-
ments, see  that  title.
On  a  dissolution  of  marriage,  although  there  is  no  express   Dissolution  of
enactment,  as  in  the  case  of  a  judicial  separation,  that  there-   ™^"^»-
upon  the  (former)  wife  shall  become  a  feme  sole  to  all  in-
tents,  yet  such  is  the  necessary  consequence  of  the  act.
Wilkinson  v.  Gibson,  L.  R.,  4  Eq.  162,  169.
