case Ayliffe against tracy the father agree to give his daughter l as a  marriage portion with the plaintiff and have devise l to her die before the  marriage it be decree that the husband shall not have the other l because he  know that l be devise to her and have accept that legacy in marriage shall  have no more S c Peer wms S c Eq ab upon a bill exhibit against the executor  of sir Thomas haselwood the case appear to be thus a agreement be make in the  year between the plaintiff and sir Thomas that he the say plaintiff shall  marry the daughter of sir Thomas by which agreement the plaintiff be to settle  so much land in jointure in consideration of the say marriage and of three  thousand pound to be pay to he as the marriageportion a Mr peer William state  the case thus Ayliffe court one of the daughter of sir Thomas haselwood and  treat with the father about the marriage the father consent to the marriage  and write to his daughter intimate that he have meet Mr Ayliffe and have agree  to give he l as a portion which sir Thomas say he Ayliffe seem full to assent  to and that they be to meet the next day when the affair be to be full  conclude and subscribe his name to the letter that they meet accord and agree  to the marriage and the father give money to the daughter to buy her  weddingclothes that the weddingday be appoint but that before the day arrive  sir Thomas die have make his will long antecedent to this treaty of marriage  and give his daughter only l that the daughter do not show the letter to  Ayliffe who she afterward marry S c Peer wms see Douglas v Vincent vern a the  marriage take effect and four year before this agreement be make videlicet in  the year sir Thomas haselwood make his will and thereby devise to his say  daughter the sum of two thousand pound and no more and before the say marriage  be have sir Thomas die sudden and now the plaintiff exhibit this bill against  his executor to have the other thousand pound pay to he accord to the say  marriageagreement the court be of opinion that the plaintiff may have have  some colourable pretence to this thousand pound if before his marriage with  the daughter he have not know that her father have devise two thousand pound  to her and no more but have marry the daughter and accept that legacy he shall  recover no more modern report beside if this thousand pound have be  recoverable it must be in right of the husband alone for his wife have no  manner of right therefore if he die before it be recover his executor or  administrator and not the wife will be entitle to it so that he ought rather  to have exhibit his bill for the whole three thousand pound than for one  thousand pound residue thereof because the two thousand pound he receive by  virtue of the will can be no part of the three thousand pound upon the  marriageagreement so the bill be dismiss with cost a nothing appear in the  register book but the order of dismissal Reg lib a fol a modern report er p  trinity term the eight of George the first in the year in the court of  chancery earl of Macclesfield Lord chancellor sir Joseph Jekyll Knt master of  the roll sir Robert Raymond Knt attorneygeneral sir Philip York Knt solicitor  general