LEGAL-UNITIES DOCTRINE

By SovConn | September 15, 2013

legal-unities doctrine.Hist. The common-law rule that a wife had no separate existence from her husband. — Also termed doctrine of legal unities; unities doctrine of marriage. See MARRIED WOMEN’S PROPERTY ACTS; SPOUSAL-UNITY DOCTRINE .

 [Blacks Law 8th]

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