Excerpt from Treatise on the Law of Husband and Wife, Vol. 2 of 2: As Respects Property; Partly Founded Upon Roper's Treatise and Comprising Jacob's Notes and Additions Thereto 1. As the law by marriage gives to the husband all his wife's personal estate in possession, and the power of recover ing her personal property in action, it, not without reason. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.