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    AS AFEECTE© BY THE LAW. 127

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    XXV.—GERMAN LITERATURE. +

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    A . . „ . No. IV. It is tinie to draw th...

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    Third—A woman marrying without any ante-nuptial contract , "to retain her property and after acquisitions and earnings as if she

    were a > feme sole . Fourth—A married woman having separate property , to be

    liable on her separate contracts , whether made before or after marriage Fifth— . A husband not to be liable for _' the ante-nuptial debts of his

    wife , any farther than any property brought to him by his wife under settlement extends .

    Sixth—A married woman to have the power of making a will , and on her death intestate the principles of the Statute of

    Distributions as to her husband ' s personalty mutatis mutandis to apply to the Seventh property —The of the ri wife hts . of succession between husband and wife

    whether as to real g or personal estate , to courtesy or dower , to be , framed There on are princi doubtless ples of equal great justice difficulties to either some party perhaps . at present

    almost insuperable , in the way of reducing , these proposed laws into practicestillwhere the question at issue bears so strongly

    ; , on the interests of so large a portion of the community , no _considerations of mere expediency should interfere to prevent our

    endeavouring to devise some means of attaining the end in view . That it can be realizedto a great extent is evident from the fact

    , that other nations have already partially adopted these or similar lawswith modifications differing in different places . It remains

    then , for us to ascertain what the actual results have been , and , alterations availing ourselves in our Statute of the Book experience as shall thus render obtained it no , longer to make possible such

    for one human being to hold property in another , not because perhaps the

    ri avowedl _g'ht is y exercised as master under and the slave guise , but of the not sacred the less , but trul too y often abused ,

    relationship of husband and wife . Maey C . Tab oh .

    As Afeecte© By The Law. 127

    AS AFEECTE © BY THE LAW . 127

    Xxv.—German Literature. +

    XXV . —GERMAN LITERATURE . +

    A . . „ . No. Iv. It Is Tinie To Draw Th...

    _A . „ . No . IV . It is tinie to draw the attention of our readers to the numerous

    p productions lume of Louise of Madame Muhlbach Clara , has Mundt long , been who popular , under as the a nom writer de .

    Her husbandTheodore Mundtholds an honourable position amongst the philosophers , and philolog , ists of his native country . Born at leted at the

    Potsdam in 1808 his education was comp University of Berlinwherein , common with his contemporary Pleinrich Heine , , ,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1862, page 127, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101862/page/55/