coverture

noun

cov·er·ture ˈkə-vər-ˌchu̇r How to pronounce coverture (audio)

-chər,

-ˌtyu̇r,

-ˌtu̇r

: covering

: shelter

: the status a woman acquires upon marriage under common law

Example Sentences

under the coverture of a raging snowstorm, the rebels undertook their surprise attack on the fortress

Recent Examples on the Web Heavenly Mother, according to our own doctrine, can’t be some wilting Victorian flower shrinking under the protective coverture of a strong man.

The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 May 2022 The famous legal scholar William Blackstone had interpreted coverture rather strictly in the 1760s, and the American Revolution did nothing to change that.

Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2022 That started to change by about the 18th century, when coverture laws—which counted wives as legal property of their husbands—grew more entrenched in Britain, and evolved to effectively forbid women from owning land at all.

Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2021 In the nascent American Republic, where some humans could vote and most others were in coverture to their voting husbands or were the property of those men, the notion of majority representation was corrupted a priori.

Shannon Pufahl, The New York Review of Books, 21 Apr. 2020 Coverture also meant that a man had largely unrestrained access to his wife’s body.

Elizabeth Weingarten, The Atlantic, 15 June 2017 The answer partially lies in the practices of coverture, embedded in the old law of domestic relations that American colonists inherited from the British and didn’t change after the Revolution.

Elizabeth Weingarten, The Atlantic, 15 June 2017 See More

Legal Definition

coverture

noun

cov·er·ture ˈkə-vər-ˌchu̇r, -chər How to pronounce coverture (audio)

: the inclusion of a woman in the legal person of her husband upon marriage under common law

Note: Because of coverture, married women formerly did not have the legal capacity to hold their own property or contract on their own behalf. These disabilities have been removed for the most part by statute.

单词	coverture
释义	coverture noun cov·er·ture ˈkə-vər-ˌchu̇r -chər, -ˌtyu̇r, -ˌtu̇r 1 a : covering b : shelter 2 : the status a woman acquires upon marriage under common law Synonyms blanket cloak cope cover cover-up covering curtain hood mantle mask pall penumbra robe shroud veil wraps See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences under the coverture of a raging snowstorm, the rebels undertook their surprise attack on the fortress Recent Examples on the Web Heavenly Mother, according to our own doctrine, can’t be some wilting Victorian flower shrinking under the protective coverture of a strong man. The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 May 2022 The famous legal scholar William Blackstone had interpreted coverture rather strictly in the 1760s, and the American Revolution did nothing to change that. Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2022 That started to change by about the 18th century, when coverture laws—which counted wives as legal property of their husbands—grew more entrenched in Britain, and evolved to effectively forbid women from owning land at all. Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2021 In the nascent American Republic, where some humans could vote and most others were in coverture to their voting husbands or were the property of those men, the notion of majority representation was corrupted a priori. Shannon Pufahl, The New York Review of Books, 21 Apr. 2020 Coverture also meant that a man had largely unrestrained access to his wife’s body. Elizabeth Weingarten, The Atlantic, 15 June 2017 The answer partially lies in the practices of coverture, embedded in the old law of domestic relations that American colonists inherited from the British and didn’t change after the Revolution. Elizabeth Weingarten, The Atlantic, 15 June 2017 See More Word History First Known Use 13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a Legal Definition coverture noun cov·er·ture ˈkə-vər-ˌchu̇r, -chər : the inclusion of a woman in the legal person of her husband upon marriage under common law Note: Because of coverture, married women formerly did not have the legal capacity to hold their own property or contract on their own behalf. These disabilities have been removed for the most part by statute. History and Etymology for coverture Anglo-French, literally, shelter, covering, from Old French, from covert, past participle of covrir to cover coverture noun as in veil something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth under the coverture of a raging snowstorm, the rebels undertook their surprise attack on the fortress Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance veil cloak shroud wraps mantle blanket pall mask covering curtain robe hood cover penumbra cope shield cover-up screen blind camouflage concealer gloss disguise facade varnish veneer fig leaf face façade Potemkin village Trojan horse
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coverture

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