Did the case rest here, there could be no doubt that Mrs. Elkin took this property from her husband subject to such disabilities as were imposed upon married women by the common law, except so far as the same may have been modified by the statutes of Maryland then in force (Sykes v. Chadwick, 18 Wall. 141, 21 L. ed. 824), and the fact that she took title through her brother, Fred.