...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 grant would be to suppose her separate existence. . . . Document B I long to hear that you have declared an independancy—and by the way in the new...

...Kant, Hegel, and Schelling (Macon, Ga.: Mercer, l986). every thing. ... A man cannot grant anything to his wife, or enter into covenant with her: for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence. . . ,"ii4 Mary Beard has shown that Blackstone's assertions were true only in a highly restricted and...

...everything; and is therefore called in our law-french a feme-covert. . . . [A] man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into covenant with her: for the...covenant with her, would be only to covenant with himself."14 The exclusion of the married (covered) woman from the terms of full personhood exemplifies...

...marriage effectively eliminates one of the two parties: For this reason, a man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into covenant with her: for the...wife, when single, are voided by the intermarriage. 23 We can move even closer to Riccoboni's specific circumstances by considering the rights under French...

...coverture, the couple became one legal entity and not two. Thus, "for a man to contract with his wife, 'would be only to covenant with himself: and therefore...between husband and wife, when single, are voided by the intermarriage.'"22 Given this, a wife literally had no legal rights of her own. Even if a woman had...

...trends he saw around him. To Cowen, coverture meant that a man could not grant anything to his wife, "for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence;...with her would be only to covenant with himself." Even if imagined as a legal delegation of power, such an agreement was inherently revocable (and, obviously,...

...duties, and disabilities that either of them acquire by the marriage. ... A man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into covenant with her, for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence, (p. 442; cited in Glendon, 1989, p. 94, n.29) Because the wife's identity was merged into that of her...

...everything; and is therefore called in our law-french a femecovert. . . . [A] man cannot grant anything to his wife, or enter into covenant with her: for the...covenant with her, would be only to covenant with himself (430). In effect, a woman's legal personhood died in marriage; her "very being" was "suspended." According...

...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...covenant with her would be only to covenant with himself. . . . But though our law in general considers man and wife as one person, yet there 144 Shanner / Bodies,...

...trends he saw around him. To Cowen, coverture meant that a man could not grant anything to his wife, "for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence;...with her would be only to covenant with himself." Cowen knew that many separation agreements had been enforced by courts of equity in both England and...