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ergone transportation for life. In such case, his wife is legally entitled to make a will, and act in every other matter, as if she was unmarried, or as though her husband were dead.--_Roper's Husband and Wife_. _Pin Money._--It has been judicially determined, that a married woman having any _pin-money_, (by which is understood an annual income settled by the husband, before marriage, on his intended wife, or allowed by him to her after marriage, gratuitously, for her personal and private expenditure during the existence of the marriage,) or any separate maintenance, may, by will, bequeath her _savings_ out of such allowance, without the license or consent of her husband.--_Clamey's Equitable Rights of Married Women._ _Compulsory Will._--So cautious is the Ecclesiastical Court in guarding against restraint of any kind, that in a case in which it was proved that a man, in his last sickness, was compelled to make his will to _procure quiet from the extreme importunity of his wife_, it was held to have been made under restraint, and was declared void. _Wills of Criminals._--The lands and tenements of _traitors_, from the commission of the offence, and their goods and chattels, from the time of their conviction, are forfeited to the king. They have therefore no property in either; and are not merely deprived of the privilege of making any kind of will after the period of their conviction, but any will _previously_ made is rendered void by such conviction, both as respects real and personal estate. The law respecting _felons_ is the same, unless it be worth recording that a remarkable exception exists in favour of Gavelkind lands, which, even though the ancestor be hanged, are not forfeited for felony. _Bachelors' Wills._--Without any express revocation, if a man who has made his will, afterwards _marries, and has a child or children_, his will, made while a bachelor, will be presumptively _revoked_, both as regards real and personal estate, and he will be pronounced to have died intestate. The law presumes that it must be the natural intention of every man to provide for his wife and offspring before all others, and, consequently, in such a case, apportions his property according to the Statute of Distributions. But the fact of a marriage alone, _without a child_, is no revocation; and though both facts conjoin to revoke the will, yet such revocation is only on the presumption that the testator _could not have inten
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