 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; under whose wing, protection, and...  Morals in Evolution: A Study in Comparative Ethics - Page 225by Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse - 1906 - 669 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...of such making, or dissolution. BY marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law", that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is...under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing ; and is therefore called in our law-french a feme-covert, foemina viro co-ofierta ; is... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,...under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing; sheistherefore, called, in our law (French,) a feme covert, that is, under the protection... | |
 | 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...under whose wing, protection, and cover she performs every thing (a). Modern times have introduced exceptions to this doctrine, as will appear in the progress... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 660 pages
...of such making, or dissolution, BY marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law": that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is...of the husband : under whose wing, protection, and caver, she performs every thing; and is there-.fore called in our law- French a feme-covert, foemina... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...of such making, or dissolution. BY marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law": that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is...of the husband : under whose wing, protection, and caver, she performs every thing ; and is therefore called in our law- French a feme-covert, foemina... | |
 | 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...under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing, and therefore is called a femt covert. A man, therefore, cannot grant any thing lo his... | |
 | 1852 - 1174 pages
...Encyclopaedia, p. 578, vol. 13, "the husband and wife are one person in law : that is the very being or leyal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage,...consolidated into that of the husband ; under whose winy, protection, and cover, she performs everything." Beloved, carry your thoughts — (the Lord the... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1827 - 916 pages
...such making, or dissolution. By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law : (n) that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is...under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing ; and is therefore called in our law-french a feme-covert, faemina viro cooperta ; is said... | |
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