The legal principle of coverture
a. was similar to the twentieth-century concept of community property.
b. was "husband and wife are one and that one the husband."
c. provided that large estates had to be sold intact and could not be subdivided.
d. gave poorer people some protection against exploitation.
e. allowed a woman to own property.
ANS: B
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