Equity of settlement
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
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 couris as directly to be asserted against the husband. Also called the "wife's equity."