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" In the civil law the husband and the wife are considered as two distinct persons, and may have separate estates, contracts, debts, and injuries: and therefore in our ecclesiastical courts, a woman may sue and be sued without her husband. "
The Elements of Morality: Including Polity - Page 104
by William Whewell - 1845
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 1

Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...a witness, who is perhaps the only witness, to that very fact. IN the civil law the husband and the wife are considered as: two distinct persons ; and may have separate estates, contracts, debts, and injuries0 : and therefore, in our ecclesiastical courts, a woman may sue and...
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The British Constitution, Or an Epitome of Blackstone's Commentaries on the ...

Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...a witness, who is perhaps the only witness, to that very fact. In the civil law the husband and the wife are considered as two distinct persons; and may have separate estates, contracts, debts, and injuries : and therefore, in our ecclesiastical courts, a woman may sue and be...
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Gifford's English lawyer; or, Every man his own lawyer, by John Gifford

Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 pages
...she may be a witness against such her husband, in order to convict him of felony. In the civil law, the husband and wife are considered as two distinct persons, and may have separate estates, contract debts, and -injuries; and therefore, in our ecclesiastical courts, a woman may sue and be...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 1

William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...witness, who is perhaps the only witness, to that very fact. (15) IN the civil law the husband and the wife are considered as two distinct persons ; and may have separate estates, contracts, debts, and injuries e : and therefore, in our ecclesiastical courts, a woman may sue and...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 1

Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 660 pages
...witness, who is perhaps the only witness, to that very fact. (15) IN the civil law the husband and the wife are considered as two distinct persons ; and may have separate estates, contracts, debts, and injuries ' : and therefore, in our ecclesiastical courts, a woman may sue and...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 13

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...THE WIPE. 1. Of her right$, privileges, and disabilities. — In the civil law the husband and the wife are considered as two distinct persons ; and may have separate estates, contracts, debts, and injuries; and therefore, in the ecclesiastical courts, a woman may sue, and be...
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, Volumes 2-3

Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1835 - 512 pages
...marriage are not distinctly laid down in the Muhammedan law. It would seem, however, that in theory the husband and wife are considered as two distinct persons, and may have separate estates, contracts, debts, and injuries ; but in practice custom has placed the wife entirely under the power...
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, Volumes 2-3

Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1835 - 524 pages
...marriage are not distinctly laid down in the Muhammedan law. It would seem, however, that in theory the husband and wife are considered as two distinct persons, and may have separate estates, contracts, debts, and injuries; but in practice custom has placed the wife entirely under the power...
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The Law-dictionary, Explaining the Rise, Progress, and Present ..., Volume 1

Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - Law - 1835 - 854 pages
...note made to her during the coverture. 2 Maule 4 S. 393 : SV Ry. 4- Moo. Ca. 102. In the civil law the husband and wife are considered as two distinct persons ; and may have separate estates, contracts, debts, and injuries : and therefore, in our ecclesiastical courts, a woman may sue and be...
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The Book of the Constitution of Great Britain

Thomas Stephen - Constitutional history - 1835 - 810 pages
...evidenct, •who is perhaps the only witness to that very fact. In the civil law the husband and the wife are considered as two distinct persons, and may have separate estates, contracts, debts, and injuries. And therefore, in our ecclesiastical courts, a woman may sue and be...
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