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。
COVERTURE
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,