 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - 1875 - 966 pages
...disabilities, that either of them acquire by the marriage. For this reason, according to our common law, a man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into covenant penter v. Moore, 43 Vt. 392 ; Phares v. Bnrbour, 49 111. 370 ; Blair v. Patterson, 47 NH 523 ; Kyle... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1876 - 782 pages
...speak not at present of the rights of property, but of such as are merely personal. For this reason, a man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter...covenant with her:(;») for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence; and to covenant with her would be only to covenant with himself: (24)... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1877 - 908 pages
...duties, and disabilities which either of them acquire by or during the marriage.2 For this reason, a man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into a covenant with her; for the grant would be, to suppose her to possess a distinct and separate existence.... | |
 | 1881 - 982 pages
...disabilities that either of them acquire by the marriage. * * * For this reason a man cannot grant anything to his wife, or enter into covenant with her; for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence, and to covenant with her would be only to covenant with himself; and... | |
 | 1881 - 1014 pages
...disabilities that either of them acquire by the marriage. * * * For this reason a man cannot grant anything to his wife, or enter into covenant with her; for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence, and to covenant with her would be only to covenant with himself; and... | |
 | Austin Abbott - 1883 - 602 pages
...speak not at present of the rights of property, but of such as are merely personal. For this reason a man cannot grant any thing to his wife or enter into covenant with her ; for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence, and to covenant with her would be only to covenant with himself. "... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1883 - 820 pages
...speak not, at present, of the rights of property, but of such as are merely personal. For this reason a man cannot grant any thing to his wife or enter into covenant with her; for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence, and to covenant with her would be only to covenant with himself." They... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1884 - 1000 pages
...speak not, at present, of the rights of property, but of such as are merely personal. For this reason a man cannot grant any thing to his wife or enter into covenant with her; for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence, and to covenant with her would be only to covenant with himself." They... | |
 | John Innes Clark Hare - 1887 - 748 pages
...i. 233 (f. 29 b). » Giiterbock, Bracton, p. 110. » " For this reason a man cannot grant anything to his wife, or enter into covenant with her: for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence ; and to covenant with her would only be to covenant with himself."... | |
 | Marshall Davis Ewell - 1891 - 616 pages
...rights of property, but of such as are merely personal. For this reason a man cannot grant anything to his wife or enter into covenant with her; for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence, and to covenant with her would be only to covenant with himself." They... | |
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For this reason, a man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into covenant with her: for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence; and to covenant with her, would be only to covenant with himself... 
