 | William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...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 : under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing ; and is therefore called in our... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 700 pages
...law ; 'hat is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marri•'-'•; or, at least, is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing, protection, and cover she performs «Tery thing ; she is therefore called, in our... | |
 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1829 - 492 pages
...from that intimate union, by which as Blackstone says, "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 hushand." The estate May 1828 correctly speaking, is not what is known in the law by the name ~ uen... | |
 | Lady Augusta Hamilton - Marriage customs and rites - 1822 - 538 pages
...law are one person ,- that is, 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. A man cannot grant lands to his wife during her coverture, but he may, by his deed, covenant with others... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...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. For this reason, a man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into covenant with her : for the... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...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 : under whose wing, protection, and caver, she performs every thing ; and is therefore called in our... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 660 pages
...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 : under whose wing, protection, and caver, she performs every thing; and is there-.fore called in our... | |
 | Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 pages
...as one person ; for "the .very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during «arriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing, and therefore is called a femt covert.... | |
 | 1852 - 1174 pages
..."the husband and wife are one person in law : that is the very being or leyal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband ; under whose winy, protection, and cover, she performs everything." Beloved, carry your thoughts —... | |
 | Hector Davies Morgan - Adultery - 1826 - 548 pages
...so strictly maintained under the law of England, that the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of her husband ; that she does every thing under his wing or cover; that her rights merge in those of... | |
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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... 
