When a Woman's Marital Status Determined Her Legal Status: A Research Guide on the Common Law Doctrine of Coverture

• Autores: Claudia Zaher
• Localización: Law library journal, ISSN 0023-9283, Vol. 94, Nº. 3, 2002, págs. 459-486
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This research guide collects and annotates books and journal articles about the common doctrine of coverture, which held that a wife had no legal standing because her being was completely incorporated into that of her husband.

    The doctrine was imported from England into Colonial America and has not yet disappeared from the law.