In the civil law the husband and the wife are considered as two distinct persons, and may have separate estates, contracts, debts, and injuries: and therefore in our ecclesiastical courts, a woman may sue and be sued without her husband. The Elements of Morality: Including Polity - Page 104by William Whewell - 1845Full view - About this book
| Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
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| Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
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| Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 pages
...she may be a witness against such her husband, in order to convict him of felony. In the civil law, the husband and wife are considered as two distinct persons, and may have separate estates, contract debts, and -injuries; and therefore, in our ecclesiastical courts, a woman may sue and be... | |
| William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
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| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
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| Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1835 - 512 pages
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| Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1835 - 524 pages
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| Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - Law - 1835 - 854 pages
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| Thomas Stephen - Constitutional history - 1835 - 810 pages
...evidenct, •who is perhaps the only witness to that very fact. In the civil law the husband and the wife are considered as two distinct persons, and may have separate estates, contracts, debts, and injuries. And therefore, in our ecclesiastical courts, a woman may sue and be... | |
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