| Under coverture a married woman could not sue or be sued unless her husband was party to the suit. |
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| Secondly, it allows us to view a world beyond coverture and crime which has consumed so much scholarly energy in recent years. |
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| A husband could make a special legal claim under coverture if his wife was injured in an accident. |
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| With a lucid discussion of the constraints of coverture, Cott undercuts such symbolism and outlines the ironies which underlay. |
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| Around the turn of the 15th century, the French doctrine of coverture received a unique English twist. |
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| Feminist reformers also challenged coverture by invoking equality. |
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| As the legal restrictions of coverture were gradually abolished, its symbol lived on – and in some other countries it became law. |
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| Beginning in 1839 in Mississippi, states began to enact legislation overriding the disabilities associated with coverture. |
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| After all, it is impossible to understand the doctrine of coverture. |
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| With a staff always on the move and such a vast site, the solution was to communicate using the GSM network of a public operator and to install a proprietary DECT solution that extends the PBX coverture to the whole site. |
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| There was another interpretation of coverture available, based on scriptural ideas, which focused not on the husband's power over his wife but on the unity that marriage gave them. |
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| Both in the UK and the US, the restrictive provisions of coverture have long been abolished and women are, at least in law, equal to their husbands. |
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| Married women, however, were perceived to have no surname at all, since the Normans had also brought with them the doctrine of coverture, the legal principle that, on marriage, a woman became her husband's possession. |
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| What are the instruments coverture period? |
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