If the husband of a tenant in dower or for life, or if an assignee of such tenant, commits waste, he shall continue liable to an action of waste, notwithstanding the decease of his wife.

Code 1852, § 1758; Code 1915, § 3325; Code 1935, § 3790; 25 Del. C. 1953, § 903; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1