 | Law - 1804 - 518 pages
...grant, consequently no deed of grant, for the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended, or at least is incorporated or consolidated into that of the husband. \Bfack. Com. 44£. It is not the mere incapacity of doing a binding act, arisiitg from thedisability... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...speak of the legal consequences of such making, or dissolution. BY marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law", that is, the very being or legal...suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband : under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 700 pages
....round like an osier. HUSBAND and WIFE, usually termed baron and feme, are one person in law ; 'hat is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marri•'-'•; or, at least, is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband, under whose... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 752 pages
...le«;al existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage; or, at lent!, is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing, protection, and cover »he performs •very thing ; she is therefore called, in our law, (French,) a feme covert, that is... | |
 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1829 - 492 pages
...estate of a very peculiar nature, resulting from that intimate union, by which as Blackstone says, "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 hushand." The estate May 1828 correctly speaking, is not what is... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 394 pages
...masts themselves wreathed round like an osier. HUSBAND and WIFE, usually termed baron and feme, are one person in law ; that is, the very- being or legal...woman is suspended during the marriage ; or, at least, ii incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing, protection, and cover,... | |
 | Theophilus Moore - Marriage customs and rites - 1820 - 374 pages
...capital felony. An English husband -and wife are termed baron and feme, and in law are one person ; that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage ; or, at lca-t, is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband. A man cannot grant... | |
 | Roper Stote Donnison Roper - Husband and wife - 1820 - 642 pages
...of the woman is by the common law suspended during the marriage, or at least it is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing, protection, and cover she performs every thing (a). Modern times have introduced exceptions to this doctrine, as will appear in the progress... | |
 | Lady Augusta Hamilton - Marriage customs and rites - 1822 - 424 pages
...capital felony. Art English husband and wife are termed baron and feme, and in law are one person; that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage ; or, at least, is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband. A man cannot grant... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...speak of the legal consequences of such making, or dissolution. By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law ; that is, the very being or legal...suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband. For this reason, a man cannot grant any thing to his wife,... | |
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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... 
