 | 1791 - 568 pages
...hufband, her baron, or lord J and her condition during her marriage is called her coverture. Therefore, a man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into covenant with her ; for the grant would be to fuppofe her feparate exiftence ; and to covenant with... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1791 - 516 pages
...fpeak not at prefent of the rights of property, but of fuch as are merely perfanal. For this reafon, a man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into covenant with her ° : for the grant would lie to fuppofe her feparate exiftence; and to covenant with... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1793 - 686 pages
...fpeak not at prefent of the rights of property, but of fuch as are merely perfsnal. For this reafon, a man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into covenant with her °: for the grant would be to fuppofe her feparate exiftence; and to covenant witli... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1807 - 686 pages
...the marriage. I speak not at present of the rights of property, but of such as arc merely fiersonal. For this reason, a man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into covenant with her0, for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence: and to covenant with... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1818 - 560 pages
...legal rights, duties, and difabilities, that either of them acquires by the marriage. For this reafon, a man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into covenant with her; for the grant would fuppofe her feparate exiftence ; and to covenant with her would... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - 1823 - 872 pages
...suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband. 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... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1827 - 916 pages
...marriage. I speak not at present of the rights of property, but of such as are merely personal. 4I For this reason, a man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into covenant with her,(o) for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence : and to covenant with... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...law will still permit a husband to restrain a wife of her liberty, in case of any gross misbehaviour. 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,... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 694 pages
...marriage. I speak not at present of the rights of property (25), 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 (o): for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence; and to covenant with... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1838 - 910 pages
...the marriage. I 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 (m) : for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence ; and to covenant... | |
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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... 
