COVERT

Covered, protected, sheltered. A pound covert fs one that is close or covered over, as distinguished from pound overt, 6 which is open overhead. Co. Litt.,filJ; 3 BI. Comm. 12. A feme covert is so called, as being under the wing, protection, or cover., of her husband. 1 BI, Comm. 442. -Covert baron, or covert de baron, Un- H der the protection of a husband; married. 1 BI. Co=. 442. La feme que est a01Jerl ik baron, the woman which is covert of a husband. Litt.§ 670. [s. 301]