wife's property

The law gives a husband one-third of his wife's property.

You must have made a great sacrifice in selling your wife's property.

A druid, however, need not concern himself with his wife's property.

In the case of remarriage, the first wife's property immediately comes into her children's possession.

The dowry was considered as the "wife's property, although usually administered by the husband".

Creditors could not seize a wife's property to pay a husband's debts.

A wife's property belongs to her husband, and that is the reason why you forced this monstrous union upon me.

After his marriage, he became known as de Cornhill because of his wife's property.

Although the husband manages the majority of the family property, the wife's property is still delineated.

James would come to pay court to my sister, as there was less difficulty for a husband to control his wife's property than the other way 'round.

Following the death of his brother-in-law he took over the management of his wife's property and business in Tuscany.

Henry has developed qualms about slavery, mostly on religious grounds, but believes that the Colbert slaves are his wife's property.

"Uncle," he said, "I come to thank you for the care you have taken of my wife's property; she could never have managed it alone.

Worldly possessions transferred automatically from the wife to the husband in archaic times, whereas the classical marriage kept the wife's property separate.

His successful management of both his and his wife's properties allowed him to acquire additional properties.

The marital power included the power of the husband to administer his wife's property and their jointly owned property.

Stone demanded an eradication of coverture, the folding of a wife's property into that of her husband.

(Concerned that a similar action might be taken against his wife's property in Chicago, he had previously deeded it to his brother-in-law.)

It is not helpful to leave the colorful term for the portion of a wife's property that a husband may use as "property of iron sheep."

In Philadelphia, he lived at his wife's property, Fairhill, near Germantown, which they modernized through their combined wealth.

The union was characterized by other differences as well, partly because Frederick Casimir relied on his wife's property to subsidize his spending habits.

He seems on his marriage to have settled on his wife's property at Buck Crag, about four miles from Staveley.

Nariaki had been adopted by his father-in-law before Lady Maruyama's marriage, and was considered by many to be legal heir to his wife's property.

Already a great magnate through his wife's property, he had also inherited his father's estates and had been granted much forfeited Lancastrian property.

"Where the husband has been abusive or neglectful of his responsibilities, he does not have the right to take his wife's property in exchange for her freedom from him.