Equity To A Settlement
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The equitable right of a wife, when her husband sues in equity for the reduction of her equitable estate to his own possession, to have the whole or a portion of such estate settled upon herself and her children. Also a similar right now recognized ‘by the equity courts as directly to be asserted against the husband. Also called the “ wife’s equity.”