| Leslie Peirce - 2003 - 500 Seiten
...of a legal person. 2 ° According to William Blackstone's explication of this feature of common law, “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... | |
| Kristin Anne Kelly - 2003 - 228 Seiten
...commentaries on English common law, William Blackstone notes that "by marriage the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended in marriage." 5 This joining of persons was not merely symbolic but carried with it a number of very... | |
| Carole Ruth McCann, Seung-Kyung Kim - 2003 - 524 Seiten
...wife are one and that one is the husband," English law held that "by marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the women is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the... | |
| Carole Ruth McCann, Seung-Kyung Kim - 2003 - 518 Seiten
...wife are one and that one is the husband," English law held that "by marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the women is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the... | |
| Brandon Marie Miller - 2003 - 108 Seiten
...into her husband s identity. The colonies were governed by English law. And English law declared that "the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage." Her life was "consolidated into that of the husband; under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs... | |
| Frank Lentricchia, Andrew DuBois - 2003 - 412 Seiten
...“coverture” at this time actually defined the married woman's status as suspended or “covered”: “the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage,” wrote Sir William Blackstone, “or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband:... | |
| Pamela Regis - 2003 - 248 Seiten
...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 afrme covert” (Holcombe 25). These laws pertained... | |
| Betty Boyd Caroli - 2003 - 510 Seiten
...many American statutes, describes marriage as the merging of two people into one legal person so than ‘the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage.”” Wives of presidents would presumably be no different from others and would expect to share the scrutiny... | |
| Wilkie Collins - 2003 - 478 Seiten
...in marriage "the very being or legal existence of a woman is suspended, or at least 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"! Despite the fact that many people... | |
| Inger Dübeck - 2003 - 398 Seiten
...alene havde fuld retssubjektivitet, „the very being or legal existence of a woman is suspended during marriage or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband". Der var sâledes tale om en retlig fiktion: hustruen fingere des at vaere suspenderet som selvstaendig,... | |
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