Section 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.