The plaintiff, it is presumed, knew of her inability to charge her general statutory separate real estate in any other way than by a deed and privy examination, and if we were to give the effect contended for to such a transaction, it would, as Judge Ruffin said, be doing, indirectly, what the law forbids to be done directly. In passing, we will state that the case of Smaw v. Cohen, 95 N.C. 85, may be sustained, as to the liability of the separate estate, on the ground that the statute, ch. 41 of The Code (Liens), directly charges it. (301) There is another view, however, which is fatal to the plaintiff.