e a woman, whether married or
single, who has complied with the statutes of the State in which
she lived and applied for admission, that the proper court has
refused to grant her license.

VI. HOW THE LEGISLATURE HAVE REGARDED YOUR PETITIONER.--It has
been held, in England, that a wife who does business in her own
name, with either the express or implied consent of her husband,
should be treated as a _feme sole_, and be sued as such; and,
with such consent, could be an administrator, executor, or
guardian, in England or America.

The Legislature has, in repeated instances, acknowledged the
capability and capacity of your petitioner to transact business,
by providing that the _Chicago Legal News_, edited by her, and
containing the decisions rendered by your honors, should be
received in evidence in all the courts of this State, and in the
following extract from the charter of the Chicago Legal News
Company:

And all the real and personal estate of said Myra Bradwell
shall be liable for the debts of said company, contracted
while she is a stockholder therein, and all stock of said
company owned by her, and the earnings thereof, shall be her
sole and separate property, the same as if she were an
unmarried woman; and she shall have the same right to hold
any office or offices in said company, or transact any of
its business that a _feme sole_ would have.--_Legal News_,
Edition Laws of 1869, p. 93. Sec. 4, p. 93.

Your petitioner claims that a married woman is not to be classed
with an infant since the passage of the Act of 1869. A married
woman may sue in her own name for her earnings, an infant can
not. A married woman, if an attorney, could be committed for
contempt of court the same as any other attorney. If she should
collect money and refuse to pay it over, she could be sued for it
the same as if she were single. A married woman is liable at law
for all torts committed by her, unless done under the real or
implied coercion of her husband. Having received a license to
practice law as an attorney, and having acted as such, she would
be estopped from saying she was not liable as an attorney upon
any contract made by her in that capacity.

The fees that a married woman receives for her