Husbands
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Manusmṛti (Sanskrit)
Seeing this to be the highest Dharma for all *varnas*, husbands, even if they are weak, strive to protect their wives.
in the texts
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.
a father) who gave to, or settled property on a woman, to ensure that she, even though married, should possess it as her own, and be able to deal with it separately from, and independently of, her husband, who, be it added, was, in the view of equity lawyers, the “enemy” against whose exorbitant common-law rights the Court of Chancery waged constant war.
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.
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.
Seeing this to be the highest Dharma for all *varnas*, husbands, even if they are weak, strive to protect their wives.
thus the Brāhmaṇas declare this, that he who is the husband, she is remembered as the wife.
For by diligently protecting his wife, he protects his own progeny, his conduct, his family, and himself, and also his own Dharma.