 Vol. 1, p. 442 . . .By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...  Commentaries on the Laws of England - Page 364by Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - 1875Full view - About this book
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...husband and wife are one person in law", that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated...therefore called in our law-french a feme-covert, foemina viro co-ofierta ; is said to be covert-baron, or under the protection and influence of her... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 700 pages
...law ; 'hat is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marri•'-'•; or, at least, is incorporated and consolidated into...under whose wing, protection, and cover she performs «Tery thing ; she is therefore called, in our law, (French,) a feme covert, that is, .under the protection... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 752 pages
...is, the vi-ry being or le«;al existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage; or, at lent!, is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing, protection, and cover »he performs •very thing ; she is therefore called, in our law, (French,) a feme covert, that is... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 764 pages
...legal existence of the woman is incorporated and consolidated into that of her husband, under whose protection and cover she performs every thing, and...therefore, called in our law-french a femecovert. Hence, one of these parties cannot be witness for or against the other, except in cases of high-treason.... | |
 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1829 - 492 pages
...that intimate union, by which as Blackstone says, "the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the hushand." The estate May 1828 correctly speaking, is not what is known in the law by the name ~ uen... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 394 pages
...the very- being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage ; or, at least, ii incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband,...wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing; sheistherefore, called, in our law (French,) a feme covert, that is, under the protection and influence... | |
 | Roper Stote Donnison Roper - Husband and wife - 1820 - 642 pages
...or legal existence of the woman is by the common law suspended during the marriage, or at least it is incorporated and consolidated into that of the...wing, protection, and cover she performs every thing (a). Modern times have introduced exceptions to this doctrine, as will appear in the progress of this... | |
 | Lady Augusta Hamilton - Marriage customs and rites - 1822 - 538 pages
...law are one person ,- that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman, is suspended during marriage; or, at least, is incorporated and consolidated into that of the "husband. A man cannot grant lands to his wife during her coverture, but he may, by his deed, covenant with others... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...husband and wife are one person in law ; that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband. For this reason, a man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into covenant with her : for the... | |
 | Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 pages
...as one person ; for "the .very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during «arriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into...protection, and cover, she performs every thing, and therefore is called a femt covert. A man, therefore, cannot grant any thing lo his wife, but by the... | |
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