biting with him, can be seized and sold in execution against
him for his own debts, and this, though she carry on business in
her own name."--7 _Howard's Practice Reports, 105, Lovett agt.
Robinson and Whitbeck, sheriff, etc_.

"No letters of administration shall be granted to a person
convicted of infamous crime; nor to any one incapable by law of
making a contract; nor to a person not a citizen of the United
States, unless such person reside within this State; nor to any
one who is under twenty-one years of age; nor to any person who
shall be adjudged incompetent by the surrogate to execute duties
of such trust, by reason of drunkenness, improvidence, or want of
understanding, nor to any married woman; but where a married
woman is entitled to administration, the same may be granted to
her husband in her right and behalf."

There is nothing that an unruly wife might do against which the
husband has not sufficient protection in the law. But not so with
the wife. If she have a worthless husband, a confirmed drunkard,
a villain, or a vagrant, he has still all the rights of a man, a
husband, and a father. Though the whole support of the family be
thrown upon the wife, if the wages she earns be paid to her by
her employer, the husband can receive them again. If, by
unwearied industry and perseverance, she can earn for herself and
children a patch of ground and a shed to cover them, the husband
can strip her of all her hard earnings, turn her and her little
ones out in the cold northern blast, take the clothes from their
backs, the bread from their mouths; all this by your laws may he
do, and has he done, oft and again, to satisfy the rapacity of
that monster in human form, the rum-seller.

But the wife who is so fortunate as to have inherited property,
has, by the new law in this State, been redeemed from her lost
condition. She is no longer a legal nonentity. This property law,
if fairly construed, will overturn the whole code relating to
woman and property. The right to property implies the right to
buy and sell, to will and bequeath, and herein is the dawning of
a civil existence for woman, for now the "femme covert" must have
the right to make contracts. So, get ready, gentlemen; the
"little justice" will be coming to you one day, deed in ha