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(law, historical) A common law doctrine developed in England during the Middle Ages, whereby a woman's legal existence, upon marriage, was subsumed by that of her husband, particularly with regard to ownership of property and protection.

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coverture

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coverture

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（法律・歴史）中世イングランドで形成されたコヴァチャーの法理。結婚により、女性の法的存在が夫に吸収され、特に財産の所有や法的保護の面で、女性が法律上独立した権利を失う状態を指す。

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Despite reforms, traces of coverture remained in property laws well into the nineteenth century.

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改革が行われたにもかかわらず、結婚した女性の法的存在が夫に吸収されるという中世イングランドで発展したコモンロー上の教義の名残が、不動産法に19世紀まで残っていた。

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Note that voting by widows did not raise some of the concerns that might have arisen from voting by wives subject to common-law coverture servitude to their husbands.

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