Does anyone familiar with deed research know the history of the
following phrase which may appear at the end of indentures for land
sales by a husband and wife? "...And the said (wife) being by me
(Commissioner of Deeds) privately examined apart from said husband
acknowledged that she executed the said deed freely without any fear or
compulsion of her said husband..."  Wondered when this language came
into use in the nineteenth century and how widespread was it.