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How shall the Husband have by his Wife, Goods and Chat∣tells, whereof hee takes charge, and how hee shall be charged for the Wife.

IF a man take a Wife which hath Goods, now the Goods are in the Husband, 26 H. 8. fol. 4.

Plowdens Commentaries, fol. 418. A woman which hath a Lease for yeares, or Goods, takes a Husband, they are in him.

7 H. 6. fol. 1. If a woman have a Lease for yeares, and takes a Husband, this is in him, but if he grant a rent charge out of that and dyes, the Wife shall have the terme discharged: And by Strange, If an Obligation be made to a woman sole, and shee take a Husband, he may release that; but if the Husband suffer the Obligation to remaine and dyes, the VVife shall have that, and not the Executors of the Husband, 9 H. 6. fol. 52. the same.

21 H. 7. fol. 29. VVhere a woman is Executrix, and takes a Husband, the Goods of the Testator vests in the Husband, and if the Husband give or release them, he may, but if the Husband dye, and doe not release them, they re∣maine to the woman againe.

Fitzh. fol. 69. If Beasts of a lone woman be taken, and shee take a Husband, he alone shall have a Replevin, for that that the property is in him onely.

Fitzh. 142. I. If a man have the VVardship of one in the right of his VVife, and after his VVife dyes, yet he shall hold that, for it was a thing vested in him.

Perhins 107. VVhere the Husband hath ret••ne in right of his VVife, and he aliens that and dyes, his VVife shall

not have that, but if he doe not alien that and dyes, shee shall have it.

Perkins 165. A man hath twenty yeares terme in right of his VVife, and lets for ten yeares, rendring rent and dyes, his VVife shall have the Rent, and the residue of the terme.

Fitzh. 119 O. If a man takes a VVife, which was indebt∣ed to other persons, the Husband and the VVife shall be ••ued for this debt, living the VVife; but if the VVife dye, the Husband shall not be charged, unlesse it were recoverd during the Coverture.

Fitzh. 121. If a man lets Land to a VVoman for life, rendring Rent, and shee takes a Husband, and after the Rent is behind, and the VVife dyes, the Husband shall be charged, for that that he took the profit; otherwise it is of an Obligation made by his VVife before marriage, the Husband shall not be charged, unlesse recovery were of that during the marriage.

Fitzh. 121. D. A woman hath Rent for Dower, and takes a Husband, and the Rent is behind, and the VVife after dyes, the Husband shall have Debt for this Rent: But if a man be bound to a woman, and she takes a Hus∣band, and the day of payment comes during the marriage, and after the VVife dyes, the Husband shall not have debt upon this Obligation, for that that it was a duty to the VVife, and a thing in action before the marriage.