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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 344 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COVERTURE (a covering, an old See also:French See also:form of the See also:modern couverture) , a See also:term in See also:English See also:law applied to the See also:condition of a woman during See also:marriage, when she is supposed to be under the See also:cover, See also:influence and See also:protection of her See also:husband, and so immune in certain cases from See also:punishment for See also:crime committed in the presence and on the presumed See also:coercion of her husband .

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