 | Woman - 1835 - 758 pages
...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... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 694 pages
...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...husband: 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;... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE - 1837 - 468 pages
...or dissolved, I come now, lastly, to speak of the legal consequences of such making, or dissolution. By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in...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... | |
 | Sarah Moore Grimké - 1838 - 140 pages
...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...the husband under -whose wing, protection and cover she performs everything.' ' For this reason, a man cannot grant anything to his wife, or enter inio... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1838 - 910 pages
...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...husband ; 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... | |
 | William Burge - 1838 - 876 pages
...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... | |
 | George Buckmaster Gibbons - 1839 - 564 pages
...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... | |
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - 1839 - 556 pages
...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... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1840 - 356 pages
...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... | |
 | lady Sydney Morgan - 1840 - 782 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
