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, not even the Sovereign himelf can imprion any Peron for Life, at Will and Pleaure; the Habeas Corpus Act, providing for the Condemnation or Enlargement of the Prioner.

III. That Wives have no Property, neither in their own Perons, Children, or Fortunes.

I grant the Laws I preume to complain of, gratify ome Mens Pride, fall in with their Interet, and oblige their Humours; that they will be very loath to part with them, and that they can plead Precription for them. But I deny that they are reaonable or jut. All which I hall endeavour to prove,

By Facts, and

By Obervations upon them.

Cae I. The firt Cafe I cite, was lately determined in the Court of Delegates in Doctor's Commons. relating to the Will of one Mrs. Lewis a Widow. While he was in that State he made a Will; oon after he married again; in ome time her econd Huband died, and he again became a Widow, without any Children by either Huband. The Will which he made in her firt Widowhood remaining, and being found after her Death, the Quetion was, whether it was a