 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...  The Journal of Jurisprudence - Page 4851876Full view - About this book
 | Sarah Moore Grimké - Slaves - 1838 - 140 pages
...Blackstone, in the chapter entitled 'Of husband and wife,' says: — ' By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law; that is, the very being, or...is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband under -whose wing, protection and cover she performs everything.' ' For this reason, a man... | |
 | William Burge - Comparative law - 1838 - 876 pages
...14, de Alimentis, vel Cibariis Legatis. By the law of England, the husband and wife are one person, that is, the very being or legal existence of the...is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband. With some few exceptions the married woman is incapable of contracting or acting as a feme... | |
 | William Blackstone - Great Britain - 1838 - 910 pages
...of such making, or dissolution. (37) By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law (1) : that is, the very being or legal existence of the...is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband ; under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing ; and is therefore called... | |
 | George Buckmaster Gibbons - 1839 - 564 pages
...marriage," says the learned author of the Commentaries on the Laws of England, " the husband and wife are one person in law, that is the very being or legal...is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband ; under whose wing, pro1 Rev. xix. 7. 9. tection, and cover, she performs every thing1." So... | |
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - Civil rights - 1839 - 556 pages
...consequences of such making, or dissolution. By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law : P that is, the very being or legal existence of the...is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband : under whose ne wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing ; and is therefore called... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Women - 1840 - 356 pages
...solitary'blessedness of a derided but innocent celibacy, or by an infamous frailty. Thus, (to adopt the bar* " The very being or legal existence of the woman is...during the marriage, or, at least, is incorporated or consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every... | |
 | lady Sydney Morgan - 1840 - 782 pages
...derided but innocent celibacy, or by an infamous frailty. Thus, (to adopt the bar* " The very being dr legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or, at least, is incorporated or consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every... | |
 | Law - 1844 - 506 pages
...are one person in law ; that is, the very being and legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing, protection, and cover she performs every thing.' I confess that I love and... | |
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - Sermons, English - 1846 - 300 pages
...marriage," says the learned author of the Commentaries on the Laws of England, "the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or...is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband ; under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing.'" So that what the husband... | |
 | William Whewell - Ethics - 1845 - 420 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 everything ; and is... | |
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