covert baron meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

covert baron

adj

Etymology From Anglo-Norman couverte baroun, alteration of earlier coverte de baron (“covered by a husband”).

Law Covert, under coverture; married.

The Surrender by a woman covert Baron, being of the age of one and twenty years, made together with her ſband of the Lands1617, The free Customes, Benefits and Priviledges of the Copyhold Tennants of the Mannors of Stepney and Hackney:

noun

Etymology From Anglo-Norman couverte baroun, alteration of earlier coverte de baron (“covered by a husband”).

Obsolete, With under The protection of a husband; a married state, the condition of a feme covert or (loosely) any married person.

to put himself under covert-baron [translating à couvert], he tooke him a wife from out that place, where all men may have them for mony[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 374: