Married women are hereby emancipated from all disabilities on account of coverture. |
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. |
A husband could make a special legal claim under coverture if his wife was injured in an accident. |
Secondly, it allows us to view a world beyond coverture and crime which has consumed so much scholarly energy in recent years. |
Around the turn of the 15th century, the French doctrine of coverture received a unique English twist. |
Feminist reformers also challenged coverture by invoking equality. |