...of England, which had been published in 1 829, as many of the wills in the sample were being made. By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being and legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage, or at least incorporated and consolidated...

...grant of power to Adam was enshrined in the doctrine of coverture of English common law. It states: By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in...cover, she performs everything: and is therefore called ... a feme-covert . . . her husband [is called] her baron, or lord.22 Although this use of the Bible...

...membership. Thus, the jurisprudence of rights in this period was understood in gendered terms. Coverture By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in...wing, protection and cover, she performs everything. . . . Upon this principle, of the union of person in husband and wife, depend almost all the legal...

...Marriage Proposals with my cautious vote for retention rather than abolition. 1. Dao 2004. NOTES 2. "By marriage, the husband and wife are one person...under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing; and is therefore called in our lawFrench a feme-covert, foemina viro co-operta; is said...

...a husband or a father. As Sir William Blackstone explained in Commentaries on the Laws of England, 'the husband and wife are one person in law: that...under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs everything'.8 The harem similarly was distinguished by its covered, or private, nature and the idea...

...codifier of democratic 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,...under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing; and is therefore called ... a feme covert [sic]."1 The fictive social contracts that,...

...Bobbs-Merrill 1965), p. 67. 25. As Blackstone expresses the doctrine of "union of person" between man and wife, "By marriage, the husband and wife are one person...consolidated into that of the husband: under whose Pateman's thesis; it is difficult not to view it as a struggle by women to gain "autonomy" — defined...

...is cited almost ubiquitously for his exposition of this equation.n "By marriage," Blackstone writes, "the husband and wife are one person in law: that...least is incorporated and consolidated into that of her husband: under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing; and is therefore called...

...intolerant and demands assimilation. — Herman Broch, quoted in the Jewish Museum, Vienna, Austria The very being, or legal existence of the woman is...incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband. — Sir William Blackstone Why is the condition of women, or relations among the sexes, so rarely framed...

...the chief principle regarding marriage that applied through virtually the entire nineteenth century: "By marriage the husband and wife are one person in...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,...