coverture

• (18 January 2008) - Pearl-shaped and tiny, the Manhattan patisserie Trois Crepes 'Dark Chocolate Pearls contain something like a buttery Rice Krispy in a coverture of bittersweet chocolate. —  Cool Hunting
• The doctrine of "coverture," which subsumed wives into their husbands 'citizenship, eroded during the 19th century, and (white or non-Southern) women became voting citizens in 1919. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• Mrs. Ross when prosecuted for her frauds was found to be protected by the law of coverture which makes the husband alone responsible. —  Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6
• Was it any fault of his that "all that she (the wife) can acquire by her labor-service or act during coverture, belongs to her husband?" —  Half a Century
• The passage of the Married Women's Property Bill in England in 1882 was the first blow at the old idea of coverture, giving to wives their rights of property, the full benefit of which they are yet to realize when clearer-minded men administer the laws. —  Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

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