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vidual, not even the Sovereign himſelf can impriſon any Perſon for Life, at Will and Pleaſure; the Habeas Corpus Act, providing for the Condemnation or Enlargement of the Priſoner.
III. That Wives have no Property, neither in their own Perſons, Children, or Fortunes.
I grant the Laws I preſume to complain of, gratify ſome Mens Pride, fall in with their Intereſt, and oblige their Humours; that they will be very loath to part with them, and that they can plead Preſcription for them. But I deny that they are reaſonable or juſt. All which I ſhall endeavour to prove,
By Facts, and
By Obſervations upon them.
Caſe I. The firſt Cafe I cite, was lately determined in the Court of Delegates in Doctor's Commons. relating to the Will of one Mrs. Lewis a Widow. While ſhe was in that State ſhe made a Will; ſoon after ſhe married again; in ſome time her ſecond Huſband died, and ſhe again became a Widow, without any Children by either Huſband. The Will which ſhe made in her firſt Widowhood remaining, and being found after her Death, the Queſtion was, whether it was
