§ 206. Divorced woman may release dower. A woman who is divorced from
her husband, whether such divorce be absolute or limited, or granted in
his or her favor, by any court of competent jurisdiction, may release to
him, by an instrument in writing, sufficient to pass title to real
estate, her inchoate right of dower in any specific real property
theretofore owned by him, or generally in all such real property, and
such as he shall thereafter acquire.