 | Philip Rappaport - 1906 - 242 páginas
...husband and wife become by marriage one person in law. "That is," says Blackstone in his commentaries, "the very being or legal existence of the woman is...wing, protection, and cover, she performs everything." In other words, husband and wife became one person, but that one person was the husband. "But though,"... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1906 - 752 páginas
...husband. Blackstone says that "by marriage the husband and wife are one person in law," and that "the legal existence of the woman is suspended during the...incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband." (Vol. 1, p. 442.) Upon this principle of the legal union of husbands and wives, most of their rights,... | |
 | Alexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Alexander Robertson - 1907 - 726 páginas
...456). Coverture. — At common law husband and wife become one person. As Blackstone expresses it, " The very being or legal existence of the woman is...wing, protection, and cover she performs everything, and is therefore called in our lawfreuch a feme-covert . . . and her condition during her marriage... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1907 - 756 páginas
...single person, represented by the husband, and as a consequence of this legal merger it has been said " that is, the very being or legal existence of the...incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband. . . . Upon this principle, of a union of person in husband and wife, depend almost all the legal rights,... | |
 | Joseph Henry Beale - 1907 - 840 páginas
...husband and wife become one person in law, — that is,- the very being or legal existence of the wife is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated...wing, protection, and cover she performs everything." 1 Bl. Com. 442. Such being the common-law status of the wife, her domicile necessarily fol536 (contra,... | |
 | William Lawrence Clark - 1909 - 524 páginas
...of the higher order. " By marriage," says Blackstone, " the husband and wife are one person in law. The very being or legal existence of the woman is...wing, protection, and cover she performs everything; and is therefore called, in our French law, a feme covert, fcemina viro co-operta; is said to be covert... | |
 | Walter Checkley Tiffany - 1909 - 722 páginas
...an etate of a very peculiar nature, resulting from that intimate union, by which, as Blackstone says 'the very being or legal existence of the woman is...incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband.' The estate, correctly speaking, is not what is known in the law by the name of joint tenancy. * * *... | |
 | Albert Martin Kales - 1911 - 892 páginas
...estate of a very peculiar nature, resulting from that intimate union, by which as Blackstone. says, "the very being or legal existence of the woman is...incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband." The estate correctly speaking, is not what is known in the law by the name joint tenancy. The husband... | |
 | Charles Erehart Chadman - 1912 - 796 páginas
...contract, there must be two parties, it followed that they could enter into no contract with each other. "The very being or legal existence of the woman is...under whose wing, protection and cover, she performs every thing." "Upon the principle of an union of person in husband and wife depend almost all the legal... | |
 | Edward Schiappa - 2003 - 236 páginas
...theory and later, more critically, as the "woman-as-property" theory, Blackstone's argument is that "by marriage, the husband and wife are one person...incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband" (1859, 442). As a result, a husband cannot grant "any thing to his wife . . . for the grant would be... | |
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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... 
