coverture

It is very similar to the doctrine of coverture in the English common law.

As such, she enjoyed legal and social independence which other married women could not (see Coverture).

The coverture laws ensured that men would hold political power over their wives.

Judges and lawyers referred to the overall principle as "coverture".

This gave married women a separate statutory estate, and released them from coverture.

This was the principle of "coverture," or civil death.

The Act altered the common law doctrine of coverture to include the wife's right to own, buy and sell her separate property.

I took the candle, hastily approached the Bed, and turned down the Coverture.

When steel grows soft as the parasite's silk, Let him be made a coverture for the wars!

These sorts of property were considered the separate property of a married woman under coverture.

So angle we for Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture.

Under the common law doctrine of coverture husbands gained control of their wives' real estate and wages.

This law of "coverture" was supposed to reflect the command of God and the essential nature of humans.

On the other hand, he could bequeath property to his wife by will, since his wife's "coverture" would cease with his death.

The concept of "Coverture" was designed to protect women in an era of warrior bands and lawlessness.

Stone demanded an eradication of coverture, the folding of a wife's property into that of her husband.

If a wife was permitted to work, under the laws of coverture she was required to relinquish her wages to her husband.

Women were completely subordinated to their husbands after marriage, the husband and wife becoming one legal entity, a legal status known as coverture.

The Law of Infancy and Coverture.

This was a smart stab at a pension enjoyed by the strong-minded woman, during her second widowhood and before her last coverture.

Coverture was enshrined in the common law of England and the United States throughout most of the 19th century.

Observes mainly only in coverture, as high as 700 m, and made up of turfs and are saturated in water.

Coverture (sometimes spelled couverture) was a legal doctrine whereby, upon marriage, a woman's legal rights were subsumed by those of her husband.

"The Coverture Incident" (1998)

In the United States, many states passed Married Women's Property Acts to eliminate or reduce the effects of coverture.