The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband.

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the holy scriptures.. are found upon comparison to be really part of the original law of nature. Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these.

Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.

Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.

By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage.