 | William Blackstone - 2002 - 500 páginas
...pcrfonal. For this reafon, a man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into covenant with herm : for the grant would be to fuppofe her feparate exiftence...only to covenant with himfelf : and therefore it is alfo generally true, that all compa&s made between hulband and wife, when fingle, are voided by the... | |
 | Huang Hoon Chng - 2002 - 178 páginas
...rights of property, but of such as are merely personal. For this reason, a man cannot grant anything to his wife, or enter into covenant with her, for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence . . . The husband also, (by the old law) might give his wife moderate... | |
 | Helen E. Maurer - 2003 - 266 páginas
...was a necessary fiction in that it reflected the contemporary '' Blackstone, Commentaries, I, p. 430: 'A man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter...into covenant with her: for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence; and to covenant with her, would be only to covenant with himself .... | |
 | Jane Austen - 2004 - 458 páginas
...speak not at present of the rights of property, but of such as are merely personal. For this reason, a man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into covenant with her: for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence; and to covenant with her, would be only to covenant with himself: and... | |
 | Rachel Ablow - 2007 - 260 páginas
...rights, duties, and disabilities, that either of them acquire by the marriage. . . . For this reason, a man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into covenant with her: for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence; and to covenant with her, would be only to covenant with himself.47... | |
 | Nancy J. Hirschmann, Kirstie M. McClure - 2010 - 352 páginas
...lowest point; their position reflected Blackstone's Common Law doctrine of "unity of person." He wrote, "a man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into covenant with her, for the grant would suppose her separate existence."60 Women were deemed incapable of acting for themselves or assuming... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - 2007 - 988 páginas
...whose wing, protection and cover she performs everything. For this reason, a man cannot grant anything to his wife, or enter into covenant with her; for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence, and to covenant with her would be to covenant with himself; and therefore... | |
 | Scott Coltrane, Michele Adams - 2008 - 416 páginas
...depend almost all the legal rights, duties, and disabilities that either of them acquire by the marriage A man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into covenant with her, for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence, (p. 442) Since the wife's identity was merged into that of her husband,... | |
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For this reason, a man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into covenant with her: for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence; and to covenant with her, would be only to covenant with himself... 
