The Contents.
Objection, I. A Woman may ſwear the Peace againſt her Huſband Cruelty Anſwer, This Remedy not always to he had; Hardſhip: ariſing from it. p. 30.
Objection, II. The Wife may put her Fortune in Truſtees Hands before Marriage. Anſwer, Few Women know this; if it were done, how little it would avail. p. 32.
Objection, III. Jointures out of the Huſband's Power to alienate. Anſwer, they are not ſufficient for all Occaſions. Caſe of a young Lady, Reflections upon it. ibid.
Objection IV. The Law obliging Men to pay their Wives Debts contracted before Mariage as hard upon them. Anſwer, No; a Woman's Circumſtances are more eaſily known than a Man's. Some Ways by which Men may deceive Women inſtanced. p. 33.
Objection V. There are Tricks and Cheats, and no Part of the Law. Anſwer, the Law expoſes Women to them, in that it gives no Redreſs to them, when ſo cheated. p. 36.
Objection VI. Amends made for all this, by Wives Exemption from Impriſonment in Civil Cauſes. Anſwer, That Exemption the Conſequence of their having no Property; that Exemption, not out of Favour to them, but to their Huſbands, to ſecure their Chaſtity. p. 40.
Objection VII. The Law juſtified, if that Exemption is a Recompence to Wives, what
