 | Marshall Davis Ewell - 1891 - 616 sider
...rights of property, but of such as are merely personal. For this reason a man cannot grant anything to his wife or enter into covenant with her; for the...with her would be only to covenant with himself." They were not allowed to give evidence against each other, mainly because of the union of person, for... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - 1893 - 558 sider
...perennal. For this reason, a man cannot grant anything to his wife, or enter into covenant with her: fur the grant would be to suppose her separate existence...wife, when single, are voided by the intermarriage. A woman indeed may be attorney .for her husband; for. that implies no separation from, but is rather... | |
 | William Blackstone (Sir) - 1897 - 838 sider
...marriage is one of coverture. A man cannot grant anything to his wife, or enter into covenant with her,1 for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence, and to contract with her, would be to contract with himself. Also usually all compacts made between the parties,... | |
 | 1916 - 578 sider
...incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband. . . . For this reason a man cannot grant anything to his wife or enter into covenant with her, for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence. . . . If she be injured she may bring no action. No suit may be brought against her, though it is true... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - 1899 - 570 sider
...rights of property, but of such as are merely personal. For this reason, a man cannot grant anything to his wife, or enter into covenant with her : for the...wife, when single, are voided by the intermarriage. A woman indeed may be attorney for her husband ; for that implies no separation from, but is rather... | |
 | 1904 - 412 sider
...rights_ of property, but of such as are merely personal.) For this reason, a man cannot grant anything to his wife, or enter into covenant with her: for the...wife, when single, are voided by the intermarriage. A woman indeed may be attorney for her husband; for that implies no separation from, but is rather... | |
 | William Albert Finch - 1904 - 1398 sider
...rights of property, but of such as are merely personal. For this reason a man cannot grant anything to his wife or enter into covenant with her; for the...with her would be only to covenant with himself." They were not allowed to give evidence against each other, mainly because of the union of person, for... | |
 | Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse - 1906 - 418 sider
...cover, she performs everything." Hence a man cannot grant anything directly to his wife, or contract with her, "for the grant would be to suppose her separate...with her would be only to covenant with himself." He is bound to provide her with necessaries, but for anything besides necessaries he is not chargeable.... | |
 | 1807 - 324 sider
...person in husband and wife that " a man " cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into eo'* venant with her ; for the grant would be to suppose " her...separate existence, and to covenant with her would SirW. Blackstone proceeds 'to observe, that ' f In cri" minal prosecutions, it is true, the wife may... | |
 | 1891 - 1186 sider
...and deemed incapable of contracting with the baron. "A man," therefore, " cannot grant anything to his wife, or enter into covenant with her ; for the...covenant with her would be only to covenant with himself. ... A further effect of marriage at common law, was to vest in the husband the wife's personalty in... | |
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For this reason, a man cannot grant anything to his wife, or enter into covenant with her: for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence; and to covenant with her, would be only to covenant with himself... 
