| 1. | The prime task of the organization was to fully abolish coverture.
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| 2. | The prime task of the organization was to abolish coverture.
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| 3. | The coverture laws ensured that men would hold political power over their wives.
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| 4. | This gave married women a separate statutory estate, and released them from coverture.
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| 5. | These sorts of property were considered the separate property of a married woman under coverture.
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| 6. | In Colonial America, few occupations were available to women due to the legal institution of coverture.
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| 7. | Under coverture, women's husbands owned their wives'property, wages, and body.
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| 8. | Stone kept her premarital family name after marriage as a protest " against all manifestations of coverture ".
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| 9. | Stone demanded an eradication of coverture, the folding of a wife's property into that of her husband.
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| 10. | According to Arianne Chernock, coverture did not apply in Scotland, but whether it applied in Wales is unclear.
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