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1 A Treatise of Feme Coverts: Or the Lady's Law [i] (1732)

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TREATI

S

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OF
fume Cobuts:
OR, THE
LADY's LAW.
CONTAINING
All the )Lato and Atatute0 relating
to WO ME N, under feveral HEADS :
V I Z.

I. Of Difcents of Lands to
Females, Coparceners, &c.
I. Of Confummation of Mar-
riage, iftealing of Women,
Rapes, Polygamy.
III. Of the Laws of Procrea-
tion of Children, and therein
of Baltaids or fpurious Ii1:i-.
IV. Of the Privileges qf Feme
Coverts, and thejn Pbwer
with refpea to their Hus-
band, and-a1 Dtheys,
V. Of Husband bad Wife,and in

what A&ions they are tojoin.
VI. of Eftates Tail, Jointures
and Settlements , real and
perfonal on Women.
VII. Of what the Wife is en.
titled to of the Husband's,
and Things belonging ro the
Wife the Husband gains
Poffeflion of by Marriage.
VI. Of Private Contrga~s by
the Wife, Alimony, feparare
Maintenance, Divorces, E-
lbpements, &C.

To which are added,
Judge RIDE's very remarkable Argument in the Ex-
chequer-Chamber, Term. Trin. 15 Car. i. In the Cafe of
Mdanby and Scot, whether and in what Cafes the Hus-
band is bound by the Contraa of his Wife:
And felec7
Precedents of Conveyances in all Cafes concerning Feme
Coverts.
In the SAVO T:
Printed by E. and R. Nu-rT, and R. Gost.maG, (Af-
figns of E. Sayer, Efq;) for Z. ,intat, and Sold by
10  Jinfot, at the Crofs Keys, againft St. Dunflan's
Church in Fleetfireet. M DCC XXXII.

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