 | Sir William Blackstone - 1807 - 686 sider
...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...incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband: under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing; and is therefore called in our law-french... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 744 sider
...profit. 4. A tiller of the ground, a farmer (Dryden). HU'SBAND AND WIFE, usually called baron and feme, are one person in law : that is, the very being or...incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing, protection, and cover she performs every thing. She is therefore called in our law... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - 1823 - 872 sider
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 sider
...marriages may be made and dissolved, we come now to the legal consequences of such making or dissolution. By marriage the husband and wife are one person in...incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband : under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing ; and is therefore called in our... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE - 1837 - 468 sider
...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...incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing, and protection, she performs every thing. Upon this principle, of an union of person... | |
 | Sarah Moore Grimké - 1838 - 140 sider
...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...incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband under -whose wing, protection and cover she performs everything.' ' For this reason, a man cannot grant... | |
 | Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - 1838 - 586 sider
...mutual property, liabilities, and contracts, being summarily defined under the present article. 1. BV marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law...the very being or legal existence of the woman is deemed suspended during marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband,... | |
 | George Buckmaster Gibbons - 1839 - 564 sider
...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...incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband; under whose wing, pro1 Rev. xix. 7. 9. tection, and cover, she performs every thing 1 ." So that what... | |
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - 1846 - 300 sider
...based 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...incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband; under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing.'" So that what the husband has belongs... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton - 1848 - 726 sider
...is styled a fane-covert (fcemina viro cooperta), and her state of marriage is called her coverture. By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in...least is incorporated and consolidated into that of her husband ; under whose wing, protection, and cover «he performs every thing; therefore, if an estate... | |
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down that 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. 
