 | Shaun Best - 2005 - 344 Seiten
...Women could not vote and as Sir William Blackstone explained: ‘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 that marriage'. Practically, this meant that, on marrying, normally ‘both possession and control... | |
 | Wendy S. Jones - 2005 - 266 Seiten
...Her status was aptly characterized by the influential eighteenthcentury jurist William Blackstone: ‘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.' 57 Because a wife... | |
 | Anita Bernstein - 2006 - 246 Seiten
...vote for retention rather than abolition. 1. Dao 2004. NOTES 2. "By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or...wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing; and is therefore called in our lawFrench a feme-covert, foemina viro co-operta; is said to be covert-baron,... | |
 | Wilkie Collins - 2006 - 700 Seiten
...the Laws of England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1765-69), i: 442-45 By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or...wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing; and is therefore called in our law-French a feme-covert, foemina viro co-operta; 1 is said to be covertbaron,... | |
 | Jeffrey C. Alexander Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology Yale University - 2006 - 815 Seiten
...law put it, once women were married they ceased to have any civil existence at all: "Husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or...wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing; and is therefore called ... a feme covert [sic]." 1 The fictive social contracts that, according to... | |
 | Panu Kalmi, Mark Klinedinst - 2006 - 417 Seiten
..."identified" the legal personality of the wife with that of the husband. By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or...under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs everything; and is therefore called in our law-French, a femme covert, and is said to be under the... | |
 | Diane Robinson-Dunn - 2006 - 248 Seiten
...father. As Sir William Blackstone explained in Commentaries on the Laws of England, 'the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or...under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs everything'. 8 The harem similarly was distinguished by its covered, or private, nature and the idea... | |
 | Nkiru Uwechia Nzegwu - 2012 - 332 Seiten
...enshrined in the doctrine of coverture of English common law. It states: By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being, or...under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs everything: and is therefore called ... a feme-covert. . . her husband [is called] her baron, or lord.... | |
 | Patricia Ingham - 2006 - 295 Seiten
...absence of one, was made by Sir William Blackstone in the 17605 : By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law: that is the very being or legal...under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs everything: and is therefore called in our law-french a feme covert." The consequences of this non-existence... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Schultz, Haskell S. Springer - 2006 - 316 Seiten
...ubiquitously for his exposi-tion of this equation. 11 "By marriage," Blackstone writes, "the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or...least is incorporated and consolidated into that of her husband: under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing; and is therefore called... | |
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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 cover she performs every thing. 
