A Treatise of the Rights, Duties, and Liabilities of Husband and Wife: At Law and in EquityThis popular and useful work went through several London and American editions, and is instructive of the legal status of marriage at the time. Examines the equitable rights of both husband and wife in their legal relationship to each other, in terms of personal property, liability, debts, survivorship, suicide, inheritance, children, cohabitation, dower, arrest of a married woman, settlement, and the like. See Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 11078. |
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Page 146
... consent in court , could pass a remainder or reversion in personal property to the husband , she would not only part with a future pos- sible equity , but with her chance of possessing the whole property by surviving her husband ; and ...
... consent in court , could pass a remainder or reversion in personal property to the husband , she would not only part with a future pos- sible equity , but with her chance of possessing the whole property by surviving her husband ; and ...
Page 545
... consent de bene esse , following , as he said , the case to which he had been referred , where it had been done by Lord Alvanley and in Pickard v . Roberts , the Vice - Chan- cellor held that a married woman could not , by her consent ...
... consent de bene esse , following , as he said , the case to which he had been referred , where it had been done by Lord Alvanley and in Pickard v . Roberts , the Vice - Chan- cellor held that a married woman could not , by her consent ...
Page 684
... consent in court to part with her interest in money vested in trustees for her benefit , 545 . not permitted by her consent in court to diminish the security of a fund out of which she is entitled to an annuity , 547 . not permitted by ...
... consent in court to part with her interest in money vested in trustees for her benefit , 545 . not permitted by her consent in court to diminish the security of a fund out of which she is entitled to an annuity , 547 . not permitted by ...
Contents
Of the husbands interest in and power over the personal | 1 |
CHAP II | 13 |
CHAP IV | 54 |
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