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A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I A man; a husband. Vir et uxor: husband and wife; — censentur in lege una persona: husband and wife are regarded in law as one peraon; — sunt quasi unica persona, quia caro una et sanguis unus; res licet sit propria nxorls.Tir tamen ejus cnstos, cum sit caput mnlieris: husband and wife are, as it^vere, one person, because one flesh and one blood; though a thing may be the property of the wife, yet the husband is the keeper of it, since he is the head of the woman.