Despite this flexibility, coverture remained a powerful tool of marital inequality for many centuries. Complications arose because of coverture laws, which prohibited married women from holding property. Upon the day of her marriage, she was placed under the coverture of her husband. This gave married women a separate statutory estate, and released them from coverture. She was asking for relief from coverture. In 1871, Bradwell argued to the Supreme Court that coverture violated the Constitution's 14th Amendment. These sorts of property were considered the separate property of a married woman under coverture. The prime task of the organization was to abolish coverture. Chernock reported that other men sought for coverture to be modified or eliminated. In medieval post-conquest Wales, it has been suggested that coverture only applied in certain situations. Coverture never applied universally in Britain and was repealed in the 1800s. Coverture arises from the legal fiction that a husband and wife are one person. The prime task of the organization was to fully abolish coverture.