ABSTRACT
And every fucceeding {ettlement that he acquires is-in like manner transferred to her immediately. Wherever the hufband therefore has a fettlement, that which the wife had previous to marriage is abfolutely fuperfeded by virtue of the rule already mentioned (2); and {he cannot gain a new one b,. any aCt of her own during her huiliand's lifetime, even by relidence upon her own eftate, aftcT he has deferted her and his children (3),
But when the hu£band has no fettlement, not being bom in this country, nor having acquired one during his refidence (4), or which is the fame thing, if born here, that which he had cannot be difcovered, the wife's fettlement is not totally deftroyed by marriage, but remains fufpended during his life, or perhaps more properly during cohabitation. So that if the parties cohabit together and become cbargeable, (he cannot be feparated from her bu£band, although he has no fettlement to which file can be fent, and it muft fall to the parifh in which they dwell
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