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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of Husband and Wife The ground-work of the present volume on the law of Husband and Wife will be found in a treatise of some three hundred pages which the author's earlier work on the Domestic Relations contains. But when that treatise was written, the Married Women's Acts in England and America were a sort of first experiment or agitation; and since the second edition of the Domestic Relations not less than three thousand points have been decided, all tending to establish a mod ern jurisprudence concerning married women's rights, which decisions the author has examined while pre paring the present work, in addition to earlier author ities and various local codes. He has consequently expanded his subject, re-arranged his plan, and revised and re-written every topic, and the present work will be found essentially a new one, so far as relates espe cially to Promises to Marry, the Wife's Separate Pr0p erty under Equity and Recent Statutes, Transactions between Husband and Wife, Various Matters of Prac tice, and Separation and Divorce. A summary of the late Married Women's Acts in England and the United States will be found in the Appendix. No one can gain an intelligent comprehension of the rights and disabilities of the marriage union, as they exist to-day, without examining in order, (1) the old common-law or coverture doctrine; (2) the modifica tion of that doctrine by equity and recent legislation; (3) the latest local statute (judicially construed or not) which bears upon the particular point. To facilitate such an examination in due historical sequence is the main object of; the present work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.