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Married women and the law. Kesselring, Krista J. Kesselring : coverture in England and the common law world by Tim Stretton; Krista J. Kesselring is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Explaining the curious legal doctrine of "coverture," William Blackstone famously declared that "by marriage, husband and wife are one person at law." This "covering" of a wife's legal identity by her husband meant that the greatest subordination of women to men developed within marriage. In England and its colonies, generations of judges, legislators, and husbands invoked coverture to limit married women's rights and property, but there was no monolithic concept of coverture and their justifica
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- Author
- Tim Stretton; Krista J. Kesselring
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780773590144
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Law, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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