 | Sarah Moore Grimké - 1838 - 140 pages
...'Of husband and wife,' says: — ' By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law; that is, the very being, or legal existence of the woman is...wing, protection and cover she performs everything.' ' For this reason, a man cannot grant anything to his wife, or enter inio covenant with her; for the... | |
 | Elisha P. Hurlbut - 1845 - 232 pages
...beinif or legal existence of the woman i» suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated or consolidated into that of the husband, under whose...wing, protection and cover, she performs everything, and is, therefore, called in our law — French, a fcmnte covrrt, is paid to be covert baron, or under... | |
 | Samuel Owen - 1846 - 494 pages
...are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is snsjKnded during marriage, or, at least, is incorporated and consolidated...wing, protection, and cover she performs everything.' ;) I confess that I love mid venerate the primeval notion of that mystical and hallowed union of husband... | |
 | 1848 - 558 pages
...Mutual rights, Sfc., of husband and wife.] — The law considers husband and wife as one person ; for the very being or legal existence of the woman is...wing, protection, and cover, she performs everything, and therefore is called a feme covert. A man therefore cannot grant anything to his wife, or enter... | |
 | 1849 - 514 pages
...existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated or consolidated in that of the husband, under whose wing, protection and cover she performs every thing ; and is therefore called in our law-French, a feme-coverte, is said to be covert-baron,... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1880 - 730 pages
...person in law, that is, the very being or legal eaAstence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, at least is incorporated and consolidated into that...wing, protection and cover she performs everything." But this was only so at law. Courts of equity, for many purposes, treated the husband and wife as distinct... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1875 - 674 pages
...statutory enactments is thus stated : " By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law; that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is...wing, protection, and cover she performs everything ; and is therefore called in our law-French a feme-covert, fcemina viro co-operta; is said to be covert-baron,... | |
 | Ernest Belfort Bax, James Leigh Joynes, F. Bland, Hubert Bland - 1883 - 650 pages
...the woman is by the common law suspended during the marriage—or at least it is incorporated with and consolidated into that of the husband, under whose...wing, protection, and cover she performs everything. We can well imagine the indignation with which some members of the agitating sisterhood would repudiate... | |
 | 1886 - 800 pages
...language of Sir Wm. Blackstone: "By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law; that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is...wing, protection and cover she performs everything." I confess that I love and venerate the primeval notion of that mystical and hallowed union of husband... | |
 | 1897 - 1164 pages
...marriage, husband and wife become one person In law; that is, the very being or legal existence of the wife is suspended during the marriage, or, at least, Is...protection, and cover she performs everything." 1 Bl. Comin. 442. Such being the common-law status of the wife, her domicile necessarily followed her husband's,... | |
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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... 
