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220 Saxon aera. She is alo capable of taking a grant from the king, which no other wife is from her huband; and in this particular he agrees with the Auguta, or  of the Roman laws; who, according to Jutinian, was equally capable of making a grant to, and receiving one from, the emperor. The queen of England hath eparate courts and officers ditinct from the king’s, not only in matters of ceremony, but even of law; and her attorney and olicitor general are intitled to a place within the bar of his majety’s courts, together with the king’s counel. She may likewie ue and be ued alone, without joining her huband. She may alo have a eparate property in goods as well as lands, and has a right to dipoe of them by will. In hort, he is in all legal proceedings looked upon as a feme ole, and not as a feme covert; as a ingle, not as a married woman. For which the reaon given by ir Edward Coke is this: becaue the widom of the common law would not have the king (whoe continual care and tudy is for the public, and ) to be troubled and diquieted on account of his wife’s dometic affairs; and therefore it vets in the queen a power of tranacting her own concerns, without the intervention of the king, as if he was an unmarried woman.

queen hath alo many exemptions, and minute prerogatives. For intance: he pays no toll ; nor is he liable to any amercement in any court. But in general, unles where the law has exprely declared her exempted, he is upon the ame footing with other ubjects; being to all intents and purpoes the king’s ubject, and not his equal: in like manner as, in the imperial law, “ .” queen hath alo ome pecuniary advantages, which form her a ditinct revenue: as, in the firt place, he is intitled to an Rh