...on Scripture. " By marriage," says the learned author of the Commentaries on the Laws of England, " the husband and wife are one person in law, that is...consolidated into that of the husband ; under whose wing, pro1 Rev. xix. 7. 9. tection, and cover, she performs every thing1." So that what the husband has belongs...

...consequences of such making, or dissolution. By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law : P that is, the very being or legal existence of the...consolidated into that of the husband : under whose ne wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing ; and is therefore called in our law-french...

...dr legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or, at least, is incorporated or consolidated into 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, or covert Baron, or, undur...

...that, as Mr. Justice Blackstone has well observed, the very being, or legal existence of the wife, is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband 2. For this reason, a man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into a covenant with her during...

...are one person in law ; that is, the very being and legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated...under whose wing, protection, and cover she performs every thing.' I confess that I love and venerate the primeval notion of that mystical and hallowed...

...based on Scripture. "By marriage," says the learned author of the Commentaries on the Laws of England, "the husband and wife are one person in law, that...under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing.'" So that what the husband has belongs equally to the wife, what the wife has belongs...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing ; and is, therefore, called in our law-french a feme covert, foemina viro cooperta ; is...