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 and Seiin of that Right to his Goods, which he had acquired by becoming his Wife".

Again, though "by the Civil Law, the Huband during the Marriage, receives the Profits acruing from the Wife's Portion, yet if he declines and grows low in Fortune he may by Law eize her Portion, or Security, or bring her Action againt him, and lodge it out of his reach, for the Property of the Portion is not tranfered from the Wife by the Intermarriage."

The Laws of England allow a Wife no uch Privilege; for if a Man having no real Etate, marries a Woman with any Fortune in Money, and covenants to leave her uch a Part of it at his Death, if afterwards he perceives that he deigns to pend the whole in his Life-time, he cannot take any Method to prevent it, the Law allowing her no Remedy.

Thus We ee that by the Laws of Rome, the Wife had her ditinct Properties, as well as the Huband. But that by the Laws of England he is diveted of all Property.

I have been informed by Perons of great Integrity, who have long reided in Portugal and conequently had Opportunities of ing