Husband
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Married men, who under the common law acquired extensive rights over their wives' property, and against whose rights equity developed protective doctrines.
Marriage was an assignment of a wife’s property rights to her husband at any rate during coverture.
Under this state of things, which up to 1870 was possible, though, of course, not common, it is surely substantially true to say that marriage transferred the property of a wife to her husband.
—A married woman’s position in regard to her property was the natural result, worked out by successive generations of lawyers with logical thoroughness, of the principle that, in the words of Blackstone, “by marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law:
De Cultu Feminarum
Husbands, to whom wives are urged to be subject as a form of true adornment
Subject your head to your husbands, and you will be adorned enough.
Manusmṛti
The male marital partner who bears responsibility for protecting, guiding, and procreating with his wife.
The husband, having entered his wife, is born here as an embryo;
thus the Brāhmaṇas declare this, that he who is the husband, she is remembered as the wife.
Seeing this to be the highest Dharma for all *varnas*, husbands, even if they are weak, strive to protect their wives.