states to keep their former laws in operation, and it is considered proper that this chapter of Magna
Charta, and some of the other statutes on the same subject, should, for the present, be incorporated
or continued in the body of our statute law.
 

    The method of endowment of women in the province and in the state, has been according to the
laws of England, and it will be observed, that the testamentary law which is very comprehensive in
its provisions on other subjects, declares, that a widow's remedy for dower, shall be as heretofore.
    Among the thirty-six laws read but not passed in 1638, there was no one for the descending of land,
which contained provisions nearly similar to those in Magna Charta respecting dower.
    No act has since passed inconsistent with this statute, and it is therefore considered proper to be
incorporated with our laws,  This statute is mentioned in the letter from S. Chase, which has been
referred to.

    This statute (except the saving as to the lords of the fee,) is considered proper to be incorporated
together with Ch. 1, and 9 Hen. 3, Ch. 7.

    This statute although only in affirmance of the common law, was, as affecting the rules of property,
applicable to the circumstances of the people.  It is considered proper to be incorporated, but
subject to the provisions contained in the act of 1786, Ch 45, as to the legitimation of such children
by acknowledgment after marriage.  This statute is mentioned in the letter from S. Chase, which
has been referred to.
 

    From the various occasions in which the fermination of the year may come in question, it appears
that this statute was in force in the province and ought so to be continued.  See 1 Com. Dig. 503, Co.
Lit. 135 b, and 2 Bl. Com. 141.
 

    The parts of this statute relating to the king's debtors, and their payments into the exchequer,
were not applicable to the province; but those parts relating to distresses for rent, were always so
considered, together with all or most of the other statutes on the same subject.  In consequence of
this extention of the laws of England, no material regulations have been made by act of assembly,