PPT-Coverture

couverture A woman was presumed to be a minor person so long as she stayed in the household of a male relative father brother uncle Upon marriage a womans legal rights were subsumed by those of her husband His legal personality covered hers. By: Karen A. Weyler “Marriage, Coverture, and the Companionate Ideal in in The Coquette and DorvLegacy(2009): *** Tools. Stuff you know. , Stuff you don’t know and . stuff you know but don. ’. t’ know you know.. A. Power. *What is Power? Who has it? Who Does Not? . These are the fundamental questions of History. (. couverture. ). A. woman was presumed to be a minor person so long as she stayed in the household of a male relative (father, brother, uncle). Upon marriage, a woman's legal rights were subsumed by those of her husband. His legal personality “covered” hers.. Pre Suffragette Era. Coverture, Woman Lawyers in the 1800’s, . Expatriation Act and the Suffragette Movement. Coverture and the Privy Examination. Coverture. – . The Common Law Doctrine whereby, upon marriage, a women’s legal rights and obligations were subsumed by those of her husband, accordance with legal status of femme covert. . : under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing; and is therefore called in our law-French a . feme. -covert; is said to be covert-baron, or under the protection and influence of her husband, her baron, or lord; and her condition during her marriage is called her coverture. Upon this principle, of a union of person in husband and wife, depend almost all the legal rights, duties, and disabilities, that either of them acquire by the marriage. I speak not at present of the 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 grant would be to suppose her separate existence; and to covenant with her, would be only to covenant with himself: and therefore it is also generally true, that all compacts made between husband and wife, when single, are voided by the intermarriage.