UK Common Law
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John Bercow
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Coverture (sometimes spelled couverture) was a legal doctrine in the English common law in which a married woman’s legal existence was considered to be merged with that of her husband so that she had no independent legal existence of her own. Upon marriage, coverture provided that a woman became a feme covert, whose legal rights and obligations were mostly subsumed by those of her husband. An unmarried woman, or feme sole, had the right to own property and make contracts in her own name.
Coverture was well established in common law for several centuries and was inherited by many other common law jurisdictions, including the United States. According to historian Arianne Chernock, coverture did not apply in Scotland, but whether it applied in Wales is unclear.
After the rise of the women’s rights movement in the mid-19th century, coverture was increasingly criticised as oppressive, hindering women from exercising ordinary property rights and entering professions. Coverture was first substantially modified by late-19th-century Married Women’s Property Acts passed in various common-law jurisdictions and was weakened and eventually eliminated by later reforms. Certain aspects of coverture (mainly concerned with preventing a wife from unilaterally incurring major financial obligations for which her husband would be liable) survived as late as the 1960s in some states of the United States.
English Common Law
Married Women’s Property Act of 1848
The meaning of CHATTEL is an item of tangible movable or immovable property except for real estate and things (such as buildings) connected with real property – sometimes used as a mass noun.
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Under English common law, a wife was considered to be either the same legal person as her husband, or subordinate to his authority.
Today, most people can’t imagine a woman being viewed as a husbands’ property.
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John Simon Bercow (/ˈbɜːrkoʊ/; born 19 January 1963) is a British former politician who was Speaker of the House of Commons from 2009 to 2019, and Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckingham between 1997 and 2019.
UK Parliament
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26th July 2019
Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg joked that his Nanny would be kept out of Parliament during a comedic debut at the Despatch Box. His opposite number Valerie Vaz suggested he could sack the 77-year-old nanny Veronica Crook now he has a team of staff in his new Cabinet job.
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