It is not true if she owned the money without any such restrictions . ( Under coverture, an unmarried woman over the age of 21 is " feme sole " . ) But her brother would not legally be her " guardian " unless she has been found incompetent in some way ( being a trustee of money and a guardian of a person are two different things ) . talk ) 09 : 42, 16 June 2012 ( UTC)
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Thus, according to William Blackstone, in his " Commentaries on the Laws of England " ( Oxford, 1765 ), man and woman become, by marriage, one and the same person : as long as the marriage lasts, the woman's legal existence is viewed as " suspended ", and all her actions are done " under her husband's cover " ( becoming herself a " feme-covert " ).
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It remained in use for the'readings'( lectures ) and'moots'( academic debates ), held in the Inns of Court as part of the education of young lawyers, but essentially it quickly became a written language alone; it ceased to acquire new words, its grammar degenerated ( by about 1500 gender was often neglected, giving rise to such absurdities as " une home " ('a ( feminine ) man') or " un feme " ('a ( masculine ) woman'), and its vocabulary became increasingly English, as it was used solely by English, Welsh and Irish lawyers and judges who often spoke no real French.
