PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.

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When a male parly is herein mentioned, the rule shall apply to a female,

unless otherwise expressly provided — 1798, ch. 101, sub ch. 14,

sec. 10, ............

409

Females of the full age of eighteen empowered to make wills of lands,

tenements, or incorporeal hereditaments — 1793, ch. 101, sub ch. 1,

sec. 3, ...........

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Guardians to be appointed to females under sixteen entitled to land or

personal estate till the age of sixteen or marriage — 179S, ch. 101,

sub ch. 12, sec. 1,* .........

403

Where a free white female being an alien, intermarries with a citizen

of the United Slates, and resides therein, such female enabled to

hold and acquire lands, tenements, &c. and to transfer them as if

born therein— 1813, ch. 100, .......

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No female shall hereafter be imprisoned for debt in this state — 1824,

ch. 206, ...........

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Minority extending to eighteen years of age — 1829, ch. 216, sec. 6,

993

Powers of attorney executed by, of the age of eighteen, and acknow-

ledged as directed by the first section of the act of 1831, ch. 305,

to be valid— 1831, ch. 305, sec. 5, ......

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Receipts, acquittances, releases, or final discharges, acknowledged as

above by, of the agc of eighteen, to have the same effect as if ac-

knowledged before orphans court — 1831, ch. 305, sec. 6,

1051

To protect the reputation of unmarried woman — 1838, ch. 114,

1281

See Slander.

FEME COVERT.

Savings to them in the acts for the limitation of actions, and of claims

against the state— 1715, ch. 23, sec. 3, p. 10 ; sec. 6, p. 11 ; 1729,

ch. 24, sec. 22, p. 76 ; 1729, ch. 25, sec. 4, p. 78 ; 1781, ch. 65 ;

1785, ch. 10, sec. 3 , 1786, ch. 33, sec. 5, .

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See Limitation of Actions.

Manner of their acknowledging conveyance to bar them as grantors, or

of their dower — 1715, ch. 47, sec. 11, p. 40 ; 1752, ch. 8, p. 95;

Nov. 1766, ch. 14, sec. 6, ........

112

See Conveyances.

Savings to them in chancery proceedings---Nov. 1773, ch. 7, sec. 4, p.

124; April, 1787, ch. 30, sec. 3, ......

244

See Chancery.

No married woman shall be entitled to letters testamentary, but the

same, or letters of administration, shall be granted as if she had not

been named in the will, unless her husband shall give bond with

security — 1798, ch. 101, sub ch. 4, sec. 8, .....

382

The choses in action of a married woman dying intestate shall devolve

on her husband, without his administering — 1798, ch. 101, sub ch.

5, sec. 8, ...........

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If not reduced into possession, or judgment obtained for them in his

life-time, they shall devolve on her representative, and administra-

tion may be granted accordingly — 1798, ch. 101, sub ch. 5, sec. 8,

384

* 1829, ch. 216, elongates the minority to eighteen.

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