id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 47000 Besant, Annie Marriage, As It Was, As It Is, and As It Should Be: A Plea for Reform .txt text/plain 24996 918 62 By the old Roman laws, the married woman had no personal rights; she claim over his wife's person, that anyone who receives a married woman husband on a wife; the consent given in marriage is held to cover is committed in the eye of the law, for the wife is the husband's By the common law the husband has a right to inflict corporal punishment common-law right of a husband to restrain his wife of her personal "Whatever personal property belonged to the wife before marriage, is by the position of the wife under the English law; the husband has the law was, that by marriage "the whole of a woman's personal property was wife was equally guilty with the husband, yet in point of law she could contract of marriage while the laws remain as they are, and a man who the rights of a husband as to any property of an after-taken wife. ./cache/47000.txt ./txt/47000.txt