Note 11 — LORD ST LEONARDS.[8]

The uncle might have prohibited his niece from thus alienating, or “anticipating,” as it is called, any portion of what he had bequeathed her, but had not thought fit to do so. A woman who has thus property in equity, is the creature of equity, and may have as much or as little capacity of dealing with it, as her donor may have chosen to confer upon her. Possibly this was something like the argument of Mr Sugden, which is not given by the reporter.