Note 41 — II.
Reading edition
"In the little brown duodecimo which contains the jottings of 'that famous lawyer, William Tothill, Esquire,' there is the following entry, of the date of James I.:—
"'Fleshward contra Jackson. Money given to a feme covert for her maintenance, because her husband is an unthrift. The husband pretends the money to be his; but the court ordered the money to be at her own disposal.'"—London Quarterly, July, 1861. A very ancient germ of a "Married Woman's Property Law."