...command. During marriage, the very being, or legal existence, of the •oman is suspended, or at least it is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing, cover, and protection, she performs every thing. — Blackitone's Commentaries. [Modern times have...

...dissolution. ' , . . j- i .• dilution. By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law (n): that is, the very being or legal existence of the...under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing; and is therefore called in our law-french a feme-covert, faemina viro co-operta; is said...

...for adultery, have of late years been frequently granted by act of parliament. III. Having thus shewn how marriages may be made, or dissolved, I come now,...consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing, and protection, she performs every thing. Upon this principle, of an union of person in husband and...

...peculiar rigor on married women. Blackstone, in the chapter entitled 'Of husband and wife,' says: — ' By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in...wing, protection and cover she performs everything.' ' For this reason, a man cannot grant anything to his wife, or enter inio covenant with her; for the...

...of such making, or dissolution. (37) By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law (1) : that is, the very being or legal existence of the...under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing ; and is therefore called in our law-french a feme-covert, fa.rn.ina viro co-operta ; is...

...14, de Alimentis, vel Cibariis Legatis. By the law of England, the husband and wife are one person, that is, the very being or legal existence of the...incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband. With some few exceptions the married woman is incapable of contracting or acting as a feme sole, or...

...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...

...solitary'blessedness of a derided but innocent celibacy, or by an infamous frailty. Thus, (to adopt the bar* " The very being or legal existence of the woman is...during the marriage, or, at least, is incorporated or consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every...

...derided but innocent celibacy, or by an infamous frailty. Thus, (to adopt the bar* " The very being 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...