This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...to the county court; a few of them only excepted, that have been by privilege annexed to the crown, or granted to some great subjects, and still remain in the nature of a franchise. Hundred-Court.--This was only a larger Court-Baron, being held for all the inhabitants of a particular hundred instead of a manor. The ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...to the county court; a few of them only excepted, that have been by privilege annexed to the crown, or granted to some great subjects, and still remain in the nature of a franchise. Hundred-Court.--This was only a larger Court-Baron, being held for all the inhabitants of a particular hundred instead of a manor. The free suitors were here also the judges, and the steward the registrar, as in the case of a court-baron. It was likewise no court of record; resembling the former in all points, except that in point of territory it was of a greater jurisdiction. This court is said by Sir Edward Coke to have been derived out of the county court for the ease of the people, that they might have justice done them at their own doors, without any charge or loss of time: but its institution was probably coeval with that of hundreds themselves. The court is become obsolete. Husband and Wife.--The law of England considers marriage in no other light than as a civil contract, although it is accompanied with a religious ceremony and formalities. By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law; that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is deemed suspended during marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband, under whose protection she performs every thing. Owing to this fictitious unity, it is a rule of law, that a "married woman cannot possess personal property; so every thing of that nature to which she is entitled at the time of her marriage, and which accrues in her right, whether by gift, bequest, or otherwise, during the marriage, vests solely in the husband; he takes it free from any right of survivorship in the wife; he may dispose of it during his life, or bequeath it at his death; and, if he does not dispos...
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