Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

covert baron

[Law French] Hist. The condition or status of a married woman at common law. - Also written cover-baron. - Also termed covert de baron. "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 the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband: under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing; and is therefore called in our law-french a (eme-covert; is said to be covert-baron, or under the protection and influence of her husband, her baron, or lord; and her condition during her marriage is called her couerture." 1 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 430 (1765).