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