Talk:Coverture/Archive 1

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Deleted voting, since cases of women voting in the eighteenth / nineteenth century really had little correlation with marriage (in fact, in the early 1920s in Britain, married women were given higher voting eligibility than single women, since they were considered to be more mature and stable). AnonMoos 09:54, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Maybe this article should be merged with Feme covert (which I bulked up in ignorance of this article's existence), but I'm not sure exactly how it would be done... AnonMoos 09:54, 11 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Agreed - this being the general legal concept, both should exist under this title. bd2412  T 15:19, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, the histories are merged but the content is not - needs cleanup of the repetitive parts... bd2412  T 15:23, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to add the relevant Blackstone text in a cleaned up (f's turned into s's) state. If you think it's just clutter, I'll understand if you delete it. But I believe that reading the primary source is helpful. Iris Anthe 02:07, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

(Retitled this topic/section from Old Talk while archiving; it was, until recently, untitled. Nick Levinson (talk) 20:14, 7 January 2012 (UTC))

The Law is A Ass
I didn't realize the prior correction had already been made and reverted before making the change. I do hope that the [sic] should make the "uncorrection" stick and that no one is a ass about it ;) 206.173.243.159 (talk) 02:31, 9 July 2008 (UTC)


 * The character in Dickens says "a ass", but the commonly-repeated phrase is "an ass"... AnonMoos (talk) 08:45, 9 July 2008 (UTC)