 | John Pettegrew - 2007 - 434 páginas
...being or legal existence," in William Blackstone's mid-eighteenth-cenrury words, is "incorporated or consolidated into that of the husband: under whose wing, protection, and cover" she lives. In exchange for supporting his wife, coverture granted the husband rights to her labor, property,... | |
 | Margaret Bruzelius - 2007 - 294 páginas
...as in Blackstone's much quoted "the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband."3 In life, alas, relations were more complex. Within adventure, whose central fantasy centers... | |
 | Sally McMillen - 2009 - 322 páginas
...woman was a feme covert, or "covered woman"; a single woman was a feme sole. According to Blackstone, "By marriage, the husband and wife are one person...under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing \_sic\." A wife was a dependent and remained so throughout her married life. According... | |
 | Scott Coltrane, Michele Adams - 2008 - 416 páginas
...marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least...under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing. . . . Upon this principle, of a union of person in husband and wife, depend almost all... | |
 | Tom Lansford, Thomas E. Woods, Jr. - 2007 - 120 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...husband; under whose wing, protection, and cover, she perform every thing; and is . . . under the protection of her husband, her baron, her lord; and her... | |
 | Joyce Burnette - 2008 - 16 páginas
...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:...wing, protection and cover, she performs everything; and is therefore called in our lawfrench a feme coven.10 Nicola Phillips, however, warns against taking... | |
 | Bernadette Andrea - 2008 - 196 páginas
...whereby "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." Although Manley falls short of the full alternative to orientalist feminism Zonana recommends for our... | |
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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... 
