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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 French form of the
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modern couverture)
, a
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term in
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English law applied to the condition of a woman during
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marriage, when she is supposed to be under the cover, influence and
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protection of her
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husband, and so immune in certain cases from punishment for crime committed in the presence and on the presumed coercion of her husband .

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