 | J. M. Balkin - 2005 - 303 páginas
...wife's loss of personal rights, the husband's right to discipline his wife, and his duty to support her) ("By marriage, the husband and wife are one person...under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing."); 2 Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 433-36 (1765) (describing the husband's... | |
 | Hannah Barker, Elaine Chalus - 2005 - 312 páginas
...of their husbands. In his 1765 Commentaries on the Laws of England, Sir William Blackstone declared: By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in...incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband . . . [her property] becomes absolutely her husband's which at his death he may leave entirely from... | |
 | Jeffrey Brace - 2005 - 266 páginas
...1760 statement: "By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being of legal existence of the woman is suspended during the...wing, protection, and cover, she performs everything" (qtd. in Norton 26). Whatever bonds of affection may or may not have bound Mary Stiles to her husband,... | |
 | Henry Alan Finlay - 2005 - 456 páginas
...rationalisation in its time: By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law; that is, the very being of legal existence of the woman is suspended during the...wing, protection, and cover, she performs everything . . . These are the chief legal effects of marriage during the coverture; upon which we may observe,... | |
 | Henry Alan Finlay - 2005 - 456 páginas
...rationalisation in its time: By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law; that is, the very being of legal existence of the woman is suspended during the...wing, protection, and cover, she performs everything . . . These are the chief legal effects of marriage during the coverture; upon which we may observe,... | |
 | Maria H. Morales - 2005 - 216 páginas
...person in law." And that "person" was represented by the husband. Again Blackstone was most succinct: "The very being or legal existence of the woman is...incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband."" One of the most commonly felt injustices of the doctrine of spousal unity was the married woman's lack... | |
 | R. J. Morris - 2005 - 468 páginas
...nineteenth century legal textbooks, 'The very being and legal existence of the woman is by the common law suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated...under whose wing, protection and cover she performs everything'.31 As the Select Committee reported, 'The wife is incapable of contracting, and of suing... | |
 | Linda Craig - 2005 - 200 páginas
...are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated...wing, protection, and cover, she performs everything . . . [emphasis his]. If this is the case in England and in the United States of America, it is unlikely... | |
 | Gretchen Ritter - 2006 - 400 páginas
...civic membership. Thus, the jurisprudence of rights in this period was understood in gendered terms. Coverture By marriage, the husband and wife are one...wing, protection and cover, she performs everything. . . . Upon this principle, of the union of person in husband and wife, depend almost all the legal... | |
 | Patricia Ingham - 2006 - 295 páginas
...woman's legal status, or rather absence of one, was made by Sir William Blackstone in the 1 7605 : By marriage the husband and wife are one person in...wing, protection, and cover, she performs everything: and is therefore called in our law-french a feme covert." The consequences of this non-existence of... | |
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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... 
