 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...  American Law Magazine - Página 231844Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Carole Ruth McCann, Seung-Kyung Kim - 2003 - 524 páginas
...Often paraphrased as "the husband and wife are one and that one is the husband," English law held that "by marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the women is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated... | |
 | Jennifer Anne Henderson - 2003 - 310 páginas
...Blackstone's Commentaries (1803) glosses the common law doctrine of coverture or marital unity as follows: '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 incorporated and consolidated... | |
 | Tom Moylan, Raffaella Baccolini - 2003 - 702 páginas
...coverture, which declared, as the legalist William Blackstone ([1765-1769] 1979, vol. 1, p. 430) wrote: 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 incorporated and consolidated... | |
 | Barbara H. Zaitzow, Jim Thomas - 2003 - 268 páginas
...and ecclesiastical law in other jurisdictions, but argued differently for the common-law tradition: 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 incorporated and consolidated... | |
 | Edward Schiappa - 2003 - 236 páginas
...theory and later, more critically, as the "woman-as-property" theory, Blackstone's argument is 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... | |
 | John Barnes, Shaun Best, Robert Dransfield - 2003 - 136 páginas
...'modern' in both its tone and argument. Women could not vote and, as Sir William Blackstone explained, '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 that marriage.' In practical terms this meant that,... | |
 | Kristin Anne Kelly - 2003 - 228 páginas
...individual legal status. In his 1765 commentaries on English common law, William Blackstone notes 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 in marriage." 5 This joining of persons was not merely... | |
 | Bryan Horrigan - 2003 - 392 páginas
...18th-century Commentaries on the Laws of England did not mince words about the legal status of wives: 'By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended in marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated... | |
 | Susan Zaeske - 2003 - 276 páginas
...married, a woman's identity became submerged, or covered, by that of her husband. As Blackstone explained, "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 marriage, or at least incorporated and consolidated... | |
 | Herbert Anderson, Edward Foley - 2004 - 276 páginas
...Marry?" December 2, 1985, 34-35. 2. See the famous formulation in William Blackstone's Commentaries: "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... | |
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