Excerpt from Husband and Wife in the Law It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to mention that, though he has, for the reasons above stated, omitted to give specific references to the authorities, the writer of this book has not omitted to consult them. Another caution may not be out of place. This book states facts, not opinions; and the author must not be taken as expressing approval of the rules of law which he describes. On the contrary, he has, though this is not a work of criticism, been unable to refrain from calling attention to one or two of the most glaring anomalies in the existing law. 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.

Excerpt from The Law of Husband and Wife: Compiled for Popular Use Policy of the law is to seek the best interests of chil dren'. Parents have no abstract legal right to custody of children. - An infamous English decision. - In United States the courts may exercise discretion. May take children from both parents and give cus tody to a third person. Tendency has been towards favoring the father's claim. - Reasons for this. 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.

Excerpt from The Law of Husband and Wife: As Established in England and the United States General statutes do not affect husband and wife. Married women acts do not affect marriage relation. Property acts do not affect personal status. 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.

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.

Excerpt from The Rights and Liabilities of Husband and Wife IN the preparation of the present edition, the Editor has endeavoured to adhere as far as possible to the plan of the original Work; but alterations so many and extensive have been introduced by modern legis lation in the law of Husband and Wife, that it has not been found possible to retain unaltered any very considerable portion of the actual text. 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.

Excerpt from A Concise View of the Law of Husband and Wife as Modified by the Married Women's Property Acts: With an Appendix of Statutes The theory of the old law was that husband and wife are one person. The fundamental principle of the new law is that husband and wife are distinct persons, with independent, and possibly conflicting, rights. I have endeavoured to state the old law - shortly, since existing standard works seem to render a fuller statement uncalled for - and to show the altera tions made by the new law, with its varied application according to the date of marriage. The Married Women's Property Act, 1882, has left much to be supplied by judicial interpretation, the burden of which for some time will rest upon the judges of the County Court. I have endeavoured to suggest solutions of some of the many doubts arising upon the construction of this Statute, which will probably be found to be more far-reaching than its authors contemplated, and more radical than a casual perusal of its provisions might suggest. This work, which it was intended should appear with the commencement of the Act, has been delayed by pressure of other matters. 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.

Excerpt from Treatise on the Law of Husband and Wife, Vol. 2 of 2: As Respects Property; Partly Founded Upon Roper's Treatise and Comprising Jacob's Notes and Additions Thereto 1. As the law by marriage gives to the husband all his wife's personal estate in possession, and the power of recover ing her personal property in action, it, not without reason. 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.