Married Women And The Law
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Married Women and the Law
Author | : Tim Stretton,Krista J. Kesselring |
Publsiher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2013-12-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780773590144 |
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Explaining the curious legal doctrine of "coverture," William Blackstone famously declared that "by marriage, husband and wife are one person at law." This "covering" of a wife's legal identity by her husband meant that the greatest subordination of women to men developed within marriage. In England and its colonies, generations of judges, legislators, and husbands invoked coverture to limit married women's rights and property, but there was no monolithic concept of coverture and their justifications shifted to fit changing times: Were husband and wife lord and subject? Master and servant? Guardian and ward? Or one person at law? The essays in Married Women and the Law offer new insights into the legal effects of marriage for women from medieval to modern times. Focusing on the years prior to the passage of the Divorce Acts and Married Women's Property Acts in the late nineteenth century, contributors examine a variety of jurisdictions in the common law world, from civil courts to ecclesiastical and criminal courts. By bringing together studies of several common law jurisdictions over a span of centuries, they show how similar legal rules persisted and developed in different environments. This volume reveals not only legal changes and the women who creatively used or subverted coverture, but also astonishing continuities. Accessibly written and coherently presented, Married Women and the Law is an important look at the persistence of one of the longest lived ideas in British legal history. Contributors include Sara M. Butler (Loyola), Marisha Caswell (Queen’s), Mary Beth Combs (Fordham), Angela Fernandez (Toronto), Margaret Hunt (Amherst), Kim Kippen (Toronto), Natasha Korda (Wesleyan), Lindsay Moore (Boston), Barbara J. Todd (Toronto), and Danaya C. Wright (Florida).
Married Women and Property Law in Victorian Ontario
Author | : Anne Lorene Chambers,Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 1388 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0802078397 |
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A meticulously researched and revisionist study of the nineteenth-century Ontario's Married Women's Property Acts. They were important landmarks in the legal emancipation of women.
Married Women and the Law
Author | : Tim Stretton,Krista J. Kesselring |
Publsiher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2013-12-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780773590144 |
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Explaining the curious legal doctrine of "coverture," William Blackstone famously declared that "by marriage, husband and wife are one person at law." This "covering" of a wife's legal identity by her husband meant that the greatest subordination of women to men developed within marriage. In England and its colonies, generations of judges, legislators, and husbands invoked coverture to limit married women's rights and property, but there was no monolithic concept of coverture and their justifications shifted to fit changing times: Were husband and wife lord and subject? Master and servant? Guardian and ward? Or one person at law? The essays in Married Women and the Law offer new insights into the legal effects of marriage for women from medieval to modern times. Focusing on the years prior to the passage of the Divorce Acts and Married Women's Property Acts in the late nineteenth century, contributors examine a variety of jurisdictions in the common law world, from civil courts to ecclesiastical and criminal courts. By bringing together studies of several common law jurisdictions over a span of centuries, they show how similar legal rules persisted and developed in different environments. This volume reveals not only legal changes and the women who creatively used or subverted coverture, but also astonishing continuities. Accessibly written and coherently presented, Married Women and the Law is an important look at the persistence of one of the longest lived ideas in British legal history. Contributors include Sara M. Butler (Loyola), Marisha Caswell (Queen’s), Mary Beth Combs (Fordham), Angela Fernandez (Toronto), Margaret Hunt (Amherst), Kim Kippen (Toronto), Natasha Korda (Wesleyan), Lindsay Moore (Boston), Barbara J. Todd (Toronto), and Danaya C. Wright (Florida).
The Legal Status of Married Women in Canada
Author | : Margaret M. McCaughan-Morrison |
Publsiher | : Toronto, Ont. : Carswell |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Married women |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105043733489 |
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Married Women and the Law in Premodern Northwest Europe
Author | : Cordelia Beattie,Matthew Frank Stevens |
Publsiher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781843838333 |
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Fresh approaches to how premodern women were viewed in legal terms, demonstrating how this varied from country to country and across the centuries.
Women and the Law in the Roman Empire
Author | : Judith Evans Grubbs |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Domestic relations (Roman law) |
ISBN | : 9780415152402 |
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This sourcebook fully exploits the rich legal material of the imperial period, explaining the rights women held under Roman law, the restrictions to which they were subject, and legal regulations on marriage, divorce and widowhood.
Commentaries on the Law of Married Women Under the Statutes of the Several States and at Common Law and in Equity
Author | : Joel Prentiss Bishop |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 782 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : UOM:35112203456852 |
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Commentaries on the Law of Married Women Under the Statutes of the Several States
Author | : Bishop |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 780 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UBBE:UBBE-00112603 |
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