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Show New Wife Law. A new wife law passed the Pensylvania Legislature at the last session. It contains these provisions : "Section 1. That whensoever any husband, from drunkenness, profligacy profliga-cy or other cause whatsoever, shall tor two successive years desert his wife or neglect or refuse to live with her and provide for her, she shall as to every species and description of property, whether real, personal or mixed, owned by or belonging to her, have all the rights and privileges of a femme sole, to purchase or sell and convey the same as if she were sole aud unmarried. "Section 2. That it shall be lawful for any married woman as aforesaid to sue and be sued in her own name upon up-on all such contracts as aforesaid, hereto:ore made or to be made, and to sue in her own name her husband to recover the possession of her real estate, or the value thereof, as if she were sole and unmarried. |