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Noun Concept
Categories: Sexism, Family law legal terminology, Copyright law, Legal fictions, Legal history of England
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coverture  Fem covert  feme covert  feme sole  Femme Couvert
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Coverture was a legal doctrine in the English common law in which a married woman's legal existence was considered to be merged with that of her husband, so that she had no independent legal existence of her own. Wikipedia
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Coverture was a legal doctrine in the English common law in which a married woman's legal existence was considered to be merged with that of her husband, so that she had no independent legal existence of her own. Wikipedia
Status of wife''s legal personality subsumed into husband''s Wikidata
A common law doctrine developed in England during the Middle Ages, whereby a woman's legal existence, upon marriage, was subsumed by that of her husband, particularly with regard to ownership of property and protection. Wiktionary
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Fem covert, feme covert, feme sole, Femme Couvert, femme couverte, Femme covert, femme sole

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