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Definition of Covertures
1. coverture [n] - See also: coverture
Lexicographical Neighbors of Covertures
Literary usage of Covertures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, James William Mylne, Richard Davis Craig, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham (1843)
"Borman was first and principally argued, covertures, be menta between the parties
was, that the case of Scar' of such co- and that in the case of Tullett v. ..."
2. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1901)
"... be enjoyed by her as her separate estate, during any coverture or covertures
to which she may afterwards be subject; and she will, during the existence ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, James William Mylne, Richard Davis Craig, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham (1843)
"... in the policy of the law made for the purpose of providing for future covertures,
as well as for a present or immediately contemplated coverture ? ..."
4. The History of the Laws Affecting the Property of Married Women in England by Basil Edwin Lawrence (1884)
"... be enjoyed by her as her separate estate during any coverture or covertures
to which she might afterwards be subject; and that she would, ..."
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