Status of wife's legal personality subsumed into husband's
This article is about a law in family relationships. For other uses, see Couverture (disambiguation).
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Coverture was a legal doctrine in English common law originating from the French word couverture, meaning "covering," in which a married woman's legal existence was considered to be merged with that of her husband. Upon marriage, she had no independent legal existence of her own, in keeping with society's expectation that her husband was to provide for her and protect her. Under coverture a woman became a feme covert, whose legal rights and obligations were mostly subsumed by those of her husband. An unmarried woman, or feme sole, retained the right to own property and make contracts in her own name.
Coverture was well established in the common law for several centuries and was inherited by many other common law jurisdictions, including the United States. According to historian Arianne Chernock, coverture did not apply in Scotland, but whether it applied in Wales is unclear.[1]
After the rise of the women's rights movement in the mid-19th century, coverture was increasingly criticised as oppressive, hindering women from exercising ordinary property rights and entering professions. Coverture was first substantially modified by late-19th-century Married Women's Property Acts passed in various common-law jurisdictions, and was weakened and eventually eliminated by later reforms. Certain aspects of coverture (mainly concerned with preventing a wife from unilaterally incurring major financial obligations for which her husband would be liable) survived as late as the 1960s in some states of the United States.
Coverture was a legal doctrine in English common law originating from the French word couverture, meaning "covering," in which a married woman's legal...
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one is a citizen or resident or where marital real estate is situated. Coverture (sometimes spelled couverture) was a legal doctrine whereby, upon marriage...
the early 19th century, particularly in England, women would fall under coverture, stating that all property and contracts in their name would be ceded...
property were considered the separate property of a married woman under coverture. A husband could not sell, appropriate, or convey good title to his wife's...
reversing older family laws based on the dominant legal role of the husband. Coverture, which was enshrined in the common law of England and the US for several...
relegated to domestic and service roles near the turn of the 19th century. Coverture laws also meant that women remained legally subordinated under their husbands...
disabled, his wife was also treated as disabled under the coverture laws, even though coverture was fast becoming outmoded in the Edwardian era. Unmarried...
gave husbands control over their wives. Although by the 20th century coverture had been abolished in the UK and US, in many continental European countries...
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rebellion, ill conduct) in his wife.[Quran 4:34] In Islam, there is no coverture, an idea central in European, American as well as in non-Islamic Asian...
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widowhood or maidenhood is her stridhan. The property thus acquired during coverture also constitutes her stridhan according to all schools other than the...
affected by the Norman Conquest changes to the law in the 12th Century. Coverture was introduced to the common law in some jurisdictions, requiring property...
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has been analyzed in the context of portrayal of domestic violence and coverture in literature. Pérez Porras, Ana (2021). "La reivindicación femenina en...
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1843. He declared intellectual equality between men and women, fought coverture, and demanded suffrage, equal pay, and better education and working conditions...
polytheism, rather than the one ever-present I AM." Per the legal doctrine of coverture, women in the United States could not then be their own children's guardians...
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deal with the restrictions of, for example coverture, but her character does exist in a society where coverture exists, which inadvertently impacts social...
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