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Married women lived under the legal doctrine of coverture, in which their individual, legal identities were subsumed under ...

This is part of How Originalism Ate the Law, a Slate series about the legal theory that ruined everything.

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of any real estate of which the other spouse or anyone for the use of the other spouse was seized of an estate in fee simple during the coverture but not at the time of death, unless the survivor ...

However, in the British United States women found themselves defined by “coverture,” the idea that before an adult woman married (feme sole), she had rights to go to court, inherit, buy and sell ...

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This volume provides a corrective view, arguing that the extent to which the legal principle of 'coverture' applied has been over-emphasized. In particular, it points up differences between the ...

Married women lived under the legal doctrine of coverture, in which their individual, legal identities were subsumed under those of their husbands. The oft-cited legal commentator, Sir William ...