 | William Blackstone, Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot - 1853 - 392 pages
...the contract, only a suspension of it. Thirdly, — The legal Effects and Conseqnences of Marriage. By Marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very existence of the wife, and all her rights are incorporated and consolidated with those of her husband.... | |
 | 1855 - 812 pages
...still be observed. We turn to the chapter in Mr Warren's book, headed •• Husband and Wife." '• By marriage the husband and wife are one person in...suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated or consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing and protection she performs everything.... | |
 | 1855 - 808 pages
...chapter in Mr Warren's book, beaded " Husband and Wife." "By marriage the husbond and wife are une person in law ; that is, the very being or legal existence...suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated or consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing and protection she performs everything.... | |
 | 1855 - 902 pages
...English law goes further, and considers the husband and wife as one person. As the lawyers state it, The very being or legal existence of the woman is...marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated in that of her husband, under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing, and is,... | |
 | 1857 - 514 pages
...what is his, is his own," a proverbial observation which tallies exactly with a legal maxim, — " the husband and wife are one person in law ; that...existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage."" Physiology, also points in the same direction. Its revelations, as far as they go, are in perfect harmony... | |
 | John Kitto - 1857 - 516 pages
...what is his, is his own," a proverbial observation which tallies exactly with a legal maxim, — " the husband and wife are one person in law ; that...existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage."" Physiology, also points in the same direction. Its revelations, as far as they go, are in perfect harmony... | |
 | William Adams - 1857 - 380 pages
...English Law goes further, and considers the Husband and Wife as one Person. As the lawyers state it, The very being or legal existence of the woman is...marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated in that of her husband, under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing, and is,... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court, George Greene (Reporter) - 1858 - 646 pages
...the principle of which, so far as it has not been changed by our statutes is in force here, is " that the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of die husband." 1 Black. Com., 468.... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1859 - 618 pages
...150, 108; Eckerson agt. Vollmer, 11 How. Pr.E. 42.) The husband and wife are one person in law, and the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is consolidated in that of the husband. Francis & Becker agt. Ross. It was thus in the time of Blackstone... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 874 pages
...consequences of such making, or dissolution. By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law :(l) 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-trench afeme-corert,fasmina viro co-operta... | |
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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... 
