Legally, that's correct, but you see cases in letters and all kinds of stuff from the Ancient World that women actually were more unofficially part of their husband's house.

法律上是这样的，但是从古代书信,及其他各类文献中发现,女子更像是丈夫家中的非正式成员。

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It reads almost exactly like the prologues to these ancient collections.

读起来几乎就像那些古代法律资料集的序言。

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