Examples of coverture in the following topics:
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- In eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century America, the legal status of married women was defined as "coverture," meaning a married woman (or feme covert) had no legal or economic status independent of her husband.
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- This concept was called coverture, where, upon marriage, a woman's legal rights were subsumed to those of her husband.
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- For instance, U.S. and English law, until the twentieth century, subscribed to the system of coverture, where "by marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law; that is the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage. " Not until 1875 were women in the United States legally defined as persons (Minor v Happersett, 88 U.S. 162).
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- In the 18th-century United States, as in Great Britain, the legal status of married women was defined as coverture, meaning a married woman (or feme covert) had no legal or economic status independent of her husband.
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- For the most part, revolutionary-era women’s contributions to politics were limited to the private
realm and women were dependent upon male relatives to voice their concerns and
opinions in the public realm through a centuries-old practice termed coverture.