coverture
coverture n. (1)已婚妇女的法律身份(或状态) (2)对已婚妇女在法律上无民事能力的简称 在普通法上，曾限制妻子不能拥有独立于丈夫控制与权利主张之外的财产。这种限制在美国已被州《已婚妇女财产法》〔Married Woman’s Property Acts〕所取消。
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coverture
coverture (k[schwa]v-[schwa]r-ch[schwa]r also -tyoor), n. Archaic. The condition of being a married woman (under former law, a woman under coverture was allowed to sue only through the personality of her husband). See feme covert under FEME. [Cases: Husband and Wife 55.] — covert (k[schwa]v-[schwa]rt), adj. “Coverture, is a french word signifying any thing that covereth,
separate estate
separate estate (1)单独财产 指处于婚姻关系或商事关系的多人之中某一人的个人财产，区别于彼此间的共有财产或具有共同利益的财产。 (2)已婚妇女的特有财产在英国，普通法不允许已婚妇女占有独立于其丈夫以外的任何财产，如将某项财产归其单独使用和受益，则就该财产而言，衡平法需将该已婚妇女视为未婚妇女〔feme sole〕。妻子的特有财产可通过与其丈夫订立婚前契约〔pre-nuptial〕或由丈夫或他人赠与的方式而取得。1882年《已婚妇女财产法》〔Married Women’s Property Act〕几乎完全取消了普通法在财产问题上对已婚妇女和未婚妇女的区分。1935年《(已婚妇女与侵权人)改革法》〔Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors)Act〕规定：已婚妇女有能力取得、持有和处分财产，对合同或侵权行为承担责任，受破产法的调整和法院判决及命令的执行，其范围与未婚妇女相同。1962年《(丈夫与妻子)改革法》〔Law Reform (Husband and Wife) Act〕亦有同样的修改。 (→community property; separate property; anticipation; coverture)
married woman’s separate estate in equity
married woman’s separate estate in equity. Hist. At common law, a trust that a rich family could set up for a daughter so that she would not lose control of her own money and property to her husband. • The daughter could escape the severe limits of coverture by having her family establish a separate
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vestita viro
vestita viro (ves-tI-t[schwa] vI-roh). [Law Latin] Hist. Clothed with a husband. “A married woman is said to be vestita viro, and so long as this coverture exists her person cannot be attached on civil diligence, unless that diligence proceeds upon a decree ad factum praestandum, for the performance of some act which she is bound
feme
feme (fem), n. [Law French] Archaic. 1. A woman. 2. A wife. — Also spelled femme. feme covert (fem k[schwa]v-[schwa]rt). [Law French “covered woman”] Archaic. A married woman. • The notion, as Blackstone put it, was that the husband was the one “under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing.” 1 William Blackstone,
special plea
special plea 特别答辩 １在美国指刑事被告人提出的有罪答辩或无罪答辩以外的其他形式的答辩。２在英国，指非以概括否认〔general issue〕的形式作出的答辩，而是提出一些确定性事项作为答辩理由，如未成年〔infancy〕、妻子的地位〔coverture〕、诉讼时傚法〔statute of limitations〕等。 (→special defence)
abnormal law
abnormal law. The law as it applies to persons who are under legal disabilities such as infancy, alienage, insanity, criminality, and (formerly) coverture.
feme covert
feme covert 已婚妇女；有夫之妇 通常用以指旧时无独立行为能力的已婚妇女，与单身妇女〔feme sole〕不同。(→coverture；marriage；separate estate)