| Show assuming husbands namen the practice of the wife assuming the husbands name at marriage according to dr brewer ori originated from a roman custom and became the common custom after the roman occupation thus julia and octavia married to pompey and cicero wore were called by the romans julia of pompey octavis octavia of cicero and in latter times married women in in bosit ost european countries signed their nain names es in the same manner but omitted the of against this view may be mentioned that during the sixteenth and even at the beginning of the seventeenth century the usage seems don doubtful bt since we find catharine parr so signing herbell after the she had been tw twice ice married and we always hear of lady jane gray not dudley arabella stuart not seymour etc some lenons think that the custom or originated from the scriptural tea teaching elting that husband and wife are one this was the rule of law so fir far back as bracton died 1268 and it was decided in the case of bou versus smith in the reign of elizabeth that 1 A woman by marriage loses her former name and legally receives the name of her husband altogether the custom is in involved L in much obscurity buffalo buffal I 1 news newa |
