...grant of power to Adam was enshrined in the doctrine of coverture of English common law. It states: By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in...wing, protection, and cover, she performs everything: and is therefore called ... a feme-covert . . . her husband [is called] her baron, or lord.22 Although...

...property. The classic definition of coverture was made in the eighteenth century by William Blackstone:" By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in...wing, protection, and cover, she performs everything; and is therefore called in our lawfrench a feme-covert. The nature and content of the doctrine of unity...

...coverture marriage contract that "identified" the legal personality of the wife with that of the husband. 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 femme covert, and is said to be under the protection and...

...Marriage Proposals with my cautious vote for retention rather than abolition. 1. Dao 2004. NOTES 2. "By marriage, the husband and wife are one person...under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing; and is therefore called in our lawFrench a feme-covert, foemina viro co-operta; is said...

...a husband or a father. As Sir William Blackstone explained in Commentaries on the Laws of England, 'the husband and wife are one person in law: that...under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs everything'.8 The harem similarly was distinguished by its covered, or private, nature and the idea...

...codifier of democratic law put it, once women were married they ceased to have any civil existence at all: "Husband and wife are one person in law, that is,...under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing; and is therefore called ... a feme covert [sic]."1 The fictive social contracts that,...

...Bobbs-Merrill 1965), p. 67. 25. As Blackstone expresses the doctrine of "union of person" between man and wife, "By marriage, the husband and wife are one person...consolidated into that of the husband: under whose Pateman's thesis; it is difficult not to view it as a struggle by women to gain "autonomy" — defined...

...intolerant and demands assimilation. — Herman Broch, quoted in the Jewish Museum, Vienna, Austria The very being, or legal existence of the woman is...incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband. — Sir William Blackstone Why is the condition of women, or relations among the sexes, so rarely framed...

...law; that is, the very being, or legal existence of a woman is suspended during marriage, or at least incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband,...under whose wing, protection and cover she performs everything."7 A wife, therefore, simply did not exist as a legal being. This doctrine of coverture...

...marriage the very being or legal existence of a woman is suspended, or at least it is incorporated or consolidated into that of the husband, under whose...wing, protection and cover she performs everything, and she is therefore called in our law a feme covert [a married woman as distinguished from a feme...