coverture
Noun
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Noun
coverture
- (legal, historical) A common law doctrine developed in England during the Middle Ages, whereby a woman's legal existence, upon marriage, was subsumed by that of her husband, particularly with regard to ownership of property and protection.
- 2006, Akhil Reed Amar, America's Constitution: A Biography:
- Note that voting by widows did not raise some of the concerns that might have arisen from voting by wives subject to common-law coverture servitude to their husbands.
- 2006, Akhil Reed Amar, America's Constitution: A Biography:
- Alternative spelling of couverture
- Shelter, hiding place.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 1
- URSULA. The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish
- Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,
- And greedily devour the treacherous bait:
- So angle we for Beatrice; who even now
- Is couched in the woodbine coverture.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 1
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