Coverture
STATUS OF WIFE'S LEGAL PERSONALITY SUBSUMED INTO HUSBAND'S
Feme sole; Fem covert; Feme covert; Femme Couverte; Femme Couvert; Femme covert; Femme sole; Femme couverte
Coverture (sometimes spelled couverture) was a legal doctrine in the English common law in which a married woman's legal existence was considered to be merged with that of her husband, so that she had no independent legal existence of her own. Upon marriage, coverture provided that a woman became a , whose legal rights and obligations were mostly subsumed by those of her husband.