 | John Wade - Law - 1871 - 946 pages
...Upon this principle, a man cannot grant anything to bin wife without the intervention of trustees, or enter into covenant with her ; for the grant would be to suppose her separate eibfcnce, and to covenant with her would be to covenant with himself. The sanctity of the marriage... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1872 - 776 pages
...marriage, by any conveyance at common law, give an estate to the wife. Co. Litt. 112, a, 187, b. Jfor the therefore it is also generally true, that all compacts...husband and •wife, when single, are voided by the intermarriage, (n) (25) Л woman indeed may be attorney for her husband; (o) for that implies no separation... | |
 | William Blackstone, David Mitchell Aird - Law - 1873 - 386 pages
...disabilities that either of them acquires by the marriage. For this reason, a man cannot grant anything to his wife, or enter into covenant with her ; for the...compacts made between husband and wife when single are made void by the intermarriage. The husband, however, may grant to or contract with a third person... | |
 | David Mitchell Aird - Law - 1873 - 366 pages
...disabilities that either of them acquire by the marriage, f For this reason, a man cannot grant anything to his wife, or enter into covenant with her ; for the...with himself ; and therefore it is also generally trae, that all compacts made between husband and wife when single are made void by the intermarriage.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Samuel Freeman Miller - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 756 pages
...acquire by the marriage. For this reason, a man cannot grant anything to his wife, nor enter into a covenant with her, for the grant would be to suppose...only to covenant with himself; and therefore it is generally true, that all compacts made between husband and wife, when single, are voided by the intermarriage."... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 674 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...compacts made between husband and wife, when single, are avoided by the intermarriage." 1 Bl. Com. 442. " The legal effects of marriage are generally deducible... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1875 - 860 pages
...personal. For this reason, a man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into covenant with her:(m) for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence;...between husband and wife, when single, are voided by the intermarriage.(n)s A woman indeed may be attorney fo- hoi (•) Co. I. ¡it. 113. (•) Cro. C*r. 661.... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - Law - 1875 - 966 pages
...State v. Neul, 6 Ala. 685. with her(w), for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence:(152) and to covenant with her, would be only to covenant with himself: and therefore it г *«4_п 's a'so genera^y true, that compacts made *between husband and wife, L ° J when single,... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1876 - 782 pages
...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...covenant with her would be only to covenant with himself: (24) and (<i) Matt. xix. 9. (e) Nov. 117. (/1 Cod. 5. 17, 8. (g) Moor, 633. (Л) 2 Mori. 314. <«)... | |
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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... 
