 | Jessie Edith Gibson - 1927 - 360 pagina’s
...especially if she happened to be married. By marriage the husband and the wife are one person in law : that is, the very being or legal existence of the...marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated in that of the husband.1 Thus a woman's personal property, on her marriage, became entirely her husband's... | |
 | 1920 - 512 pagina’s
...the husband.15 Blackstone puts it thus : "By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law ; that is, the very being or legal existence of the...suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated or consolidated into that of the husband."18 This view, it is submitted, is the result of two factors.... | |
 | Washington State Bar Association - 1894 - 612 pagina’s
...the lex seripta, antedates the written laws of England. By the Common L~w, as stated by Blackstone, the husband and wife are one person; that is, the...legal existence of the woman is suspended, during marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated in that of the husband, under whose wing, protection... | |
 | 1895 - 568 pagina’s
...statutes, and first as to the common law. "By marriage, the hnsband and wife are one person in law; that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband." 1 Bl. Comm. 442.... | |
 | 1928 - 1494 pagina’s
...been considerably altered by statutes. It is no longer true, as it was in Blackstone's day, that " the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage." At common law and under many of the statutes the husband is under the legal duty to support and maintain... | |
 | Mary Burt Messer - 1928 - 396 pagina’s
...to the possession of her marriage-dower, are practically nonexistent. As Blackstone later words it: "The very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage, or at least incorporated and consolidated into that of her husband." Neither has there entered... | |
 | Canadian Bar Association - 1928 - 468 pagina’s
...and wife. Blackstone, vol. 1, p. 442, says: By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law; that is, the very being or legal existence of the...suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated or consolidated into that of the husband; under whose wing, protection and cover, she performs everything.... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Employment Security - 1941 - 1556 pagina’s
...Interpreting the Common Law, Lord Blackstone says: By marriage the husband mid wife are one person in the law; that, is, the very being, or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, »r at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing, protection,... | |
 | Laura H. Dale - 1956 - 120 pagina’s
...of married women under the common law — By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage, or at least incorporated and consolidated into that of her husband. On marriage the woman... | |
 | Margaret Wade Labarge - 1997 - 312 pagina’s
...of the eighteenth century. He stated that, "By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage."27 He carried this belief to its most rigorous conclusion. Not only could the husband not... | |
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By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband... 
