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To which it was replied, that the fame argument might be made ufe of againft a feme covert's anfwering any bill, when mule a co-defendant witli her hufband, which is contrary to all rules of pradtice; and therefore this objeftion ought not to prevail.
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of Some Special Cases ... William Peere Williams 1793
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The firft thing one of thefe conceited witty ones generally finds out is, that her hufband is a fool; and can there be a more dangerous fituation in nature for a woman?
Edinburgh Fugitive Pieces ... William Creech 1791
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An ironmonger's wife have the fpleen I Thou might'ft as well have faid her hufband was a fine gentleman - — - * give me fomething.
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That kind of hufband - ry has been found in moft chapters at the head of the lift, and very high in all.
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They are permitted to marry; their wives work as well as themfelves, but lay afide their gains; and fliould the hufband, after making a fortune, choofe to leave the country to return home, he leaves a part of his property with bis wife, who retains and bnngs up the children.
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Cambridge - Page 135man's judgment, and our providence unfit to "guide our own aflairs 1" When Charles the Second made him Mafter pf Trinity College in Cambridge, ... more pages: 302 Galway - Page 66The following exquifitely affecting incident took place between Lady Fanfhawe and her hufband, in a voyage that they triatfe together from Galway to ...
Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding ... 1798
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In cafes of adultery, the hufband either put away the guilty wife, or fatisfied himfelf by the infliction of fome fevcre punifhment.
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If the hufband chofe to fell his wives beaver petticoat, Ihe could not be perfuaded to part with it, until he had provided another of fome fort.
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She called upQUf her hufband, her lover, her Montalmant!
Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments,: Tending to Amuse ... 1797
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Among the Gauls, the hufband received a portion in money with his wife, for which he made her a fuitable fettlement of his goods.
Icelandic poetry 1797
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