Coverture was a legal doctrine in English common law originating from the French word couverture, meaning "covering," in which a married woman's legal...

one is a citizen or resident or where marital real estate is situated. Coverture (sometimes spelled couverture) was a legal doctrine whereby, upon marriage...

Callebaut is a Belgian coverture chocolate manufacturer owned by the Barry Callebaut group and based in Belgium. It was founded in 1911 by Octaaf Callebaut...

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Until the 20th century, U.S. and English law observed the system of coverture, where "by marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law; that...

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...

the early 19th century, particularly in England, women would fall under coverture, stating that all property and contracts in their name would be ceded...

to their property once they married. Under the common law doctrine of coverture husbands gained control of their wives' real estate and wages. Beginning...

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...

During the Middle Ages, the English common law adopted the doctrine of coverture, which held that a married woman was a "feme covert" with no legal personhood...

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...

disabled, his wife was also treated as disabled under the coverture laws, even though coverture was fast becoming outmoded in the Edwardian era. Unmarried...

her for her own purposes, thereby circumventing the prevailing idea of coverture. In his chronicle, Polydore Vergil assessed the partnership between the...

subjection of women. When a woman was married, she entered legally binding coverture with her husband; once she married her legal existence as an individual...

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...

2013). Tillman, Kacy Dowd (2016). "Women Left Behind: Female Loyalism, Coverture, and Grace Growden Galloway's Empire of Self". Women's Narratives of the...

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...

required to choose between following her husband (as the marital law of coverture required) or staying in Massachusetts (and keeping her land). He argued...

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...

argues that the position of married women under the legal doctrine of coverture was analogous to slavery. Present-day scholars have noted philosophical...

5th son of Sir Edward Seymour, 3rd Baronet of Berry Pomeroy, Devon (by coverture applying to his wife Anne Portman, second daughter of Sir John Portman...

gave married women a separate statutory estate and released them from coverture. It was for the first time theoretically possible for married women to...

preclude women from citizenship, courts absorbed the common law practice of coverture into the United States legal system. Under this practice, the physical...

deal with the restrictions of, for example coverture, but her character does exist in a society where coverture exists, which inadvertently impacts social...

Property Acts gave American married women new economic rights. Under coverture (an English common law system), married women could not own property,...

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...

1843. He declared intellectual equality between men and women, fought coverture, and demanded suffrage, equal pay, and better education and working conditions...

name (or surname) after marriage; often she was compelled to do so under coverture laws. Assuming the husband's surname remains common practice today in...

organizers, affirmed intellectual equality between men and women, fought coverture laws against women's economic rights, and demanded suffrage, equal pay...

the authority of a husband if a woman was married. Under the rule of coverture, the control of the physical body of married woman, as well as rights...