..."The very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage or at least is ... consolidated into that of the husband; under whose wing, protection, and cover she performs every thing."29 American colonists also conformed to the common law practice of entrusting child custody...

...peculiar rigor on married women. Blackstone, in the chapter entitled "Of husband and wife," says: — # \ # G # For this reason, a man cannot grant anything to his wife, or enter into covenant with her; for the...

...married women under the common law was set out in Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England'. By marriage the husband and wife are one person in...under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing; and is therefore called in our law-french a feme-covert; is said to be covert-baron, or...

...limitation extended well into the eighteenth century. As William Blackstone noted in his Commentaries: By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in...under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing; and is therefore called in our law-french a feme-covert; is said to be covert-baron, or...

...to enforce this uneasy and unbalanced relationship. As the British jurist William Blackstone put it, "By marriage, the husband and wife are one person...under whose wing, protection, and cover she performs every thing."21 Women in France, too, under the Old Regime were generally considered minors in the...

...sympathy.46 As William Blackstone describes the doctrine in his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1756): By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in...under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing; and is therefore called in our law-french a feme-covert . . . and her condition during...

...summarized the English common law from which American jurisprudence had evolved. "By marriage," he held, "the husband and wife are one person in law: that...incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband." Simply put, only the personhood of the groom survived the wedding ceremony.2 This principle had long...

...allen Neuigkeiten unterrichtet. Die legale Existenz einer verheirateten Frau im 19. Jahrhundert ist „incorporated and consolidated into that of the...wing, protection and cover she performs everything" . Dies bedeutet, dass eine verheiratete Frau bedingungslos an ihren Mann gebunden ist und damit nicht...

...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" (Holcombe 1983, 25). This absence of rights for...

...legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage" or (what amounts to the same thing), "at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband," under whose "cover" she existed entirely.25 Throughout the eighteenth century and well into the nineteenth, the...