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 with the Conent of her intended Huband otherwie the Court of Chancery will relieve him. But if we reflect how extreamly ignorant all young Women are as to points in Law, and how their Education and Way of Life, huts them out from the Knowledge of their true Interet in almot all things, we hall find that their Trut and Confidence in the Man they love, and Inability to make ue of the proper Means to guard againt his Falehood, leave few in a Condition to make ue of that Precaution. And it is too notoriouly known, that it has eldom been of Service to thoe who have done it, the Huband having o entirely the Dipoal of the Wife's Peron, that he eaily finds Means to bend her to his Will, inomuch that I have heard, that it is a frequent aying of one of our preent eminent Judges, “that he had hardly known an Intance where the Wife had not been kied or kicked out of any uch previous Settlement."

Obj. IV. A Wife cannot be aid to be diveted of all Property, ince he does retain a reverionary Property in her Jointure, which is out of the Huband's Power to alienate. To