 | Hilda L. Smith, Berenice A. Carroll - 2000 - 484 Seiten
...everything. . . . For this reason, a man cannot grant anything to his wife, or enter into covenant with lier; for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence, and to covenant with her would be to covenant with himself; and therefore it is also generally true, that all compacts made between husband... | |
 | Sunka Simon - 2002 - 354 Seiten
...suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband. . . . [A]nd therefore it is also generally true, that all...wife, when single, are voided by the intermarriage."*' Germaine dutifully ends the transcription process with conventional sign-offs, and in a formal, official... | |
 | Huang Hoon Chng - 2002 - 178 Seiten
...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 grant would be to suppose her separate existence . . . The husband also, (by the old law) might give his wife moderate correction; for, as he is to... | |
 | Helen E. Maurer - 2003 - 266 Seiten
...reflected the contemporary '' Blackstone, Commentaries, I, p. 430: '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 . . . [but] a woman indeed may be attorney for her husband; for that implies no separation from, but... | |
 | Jane Austen - 2004 - 458 Seiten
...rights of property, but of such as are merely personal. 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. A woman indeed may be attorney for her husband; for that implies no separation from, but is rather... | |
 | Rachel Ablow - 2007 - 260 Seiten
...that either of them acquire by the marriage. . . . For this reason, 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.47 Under coverture, the wife's legal identity was effectively absorbed into her husband's.... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - 2007 - 988 Seiten
...wing, protection and cover she performs everything. For this reason, a man cannot grant anything to ublishing Company, Incorporated to covenant with himself; and therefore it is also generally true, that all compacts made between husband... | |
 | Kieran Dolin - 2007 - 26 Seiten
...acquire by the marriage . . . For this reason, a man cannot grant any diing to his wife, or enter in to covenant with her: for the grant would be to suppose...covenant with her, would be only to covenant with himself.3 The doctrine of coverture rests on a legal fiction, that is a counterfactual assertion which... | |
 | Nancy J. Hirschmann, Kirstie M. McClure - 2010 - 352 Seiten
...reflected Blackstone's Common Law doctrine of "unity of person." He wrote, "a man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into covenant with her, for the grant would suppose her separate existence."60 Women were deemed incapable of acting for themselves or assuming... | |
 | Scott Coltrane, Michele Adams - 2008 - 416 Seiten
...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) Since the wife's identity was merged into that of her husband, she became a legal nonperson... | |
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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... 
