Women And The Law Of Property In Early America
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Women and the Law of Property in Early America
Author | : Marylynn Salmon |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781469620442 |
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In this first comprehensive study of women's property rights in early America, Marylynn Salmon discusses the effect of formal rules of law on women's lives. By focusing on such areas such as conveyancing, contracts, divorce, separate estates, and widows' provisions, Salmon presents a full picture of women's legal rights from 1750 to 1830. Salmon shows that the law assumes women would remain dependent and subservient after marriage. She documents the legal rights of women prior to the Revolution and traces a gradual but steady extension of the ability of wives to own and control property during the decades following the Revolution. The forces of change in colonial and early national law were various, but Salmon believes ideological considerations were just as important as economic ones. Women did not all fare equally under the law. In this illuminating survey of the jurisdictions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina, Salmon shows regional variations in the law that affected women's autonomous control over property. She demonstrates the importance of understanding the effects of formal law on women' s lives in order to analyze the wider social context of women's experience.
Women and the Law of Property in Early America
Author | : Research Associate Department of History Marylynn Salmon |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0807864293 |
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A Companion to American Women s History
Author | : Nancy A. Hewitt |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780470998588 |
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This collection of twenty-four original essays by leading scholars in American women's history highlights the most recent important scholarship on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field. Covers the breadth of American Women's history, including the colonial family, marriage, health, sexuality, education, immigration, work, consumer culture, and feminism. Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. Includes expanded bibliography of titles to guide further research.
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 Property Rights of Women in Early America
Author | : Marylynn Salmon |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 746 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Husband and wife |
ISBN | : IND:39000007946317 |
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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.
American Property
Author | : Stuart Banner |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2011-07-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780674060821 |
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In America, we are eager to claim ownership: our homes, our ideas, our organs, even our own celebrity. But beneath our nation’s proprietary longing looms a troublesome question: what does it mean to own something? More simply: what is property? The question is at the heart of many contemporary controversies, including disputes over who owns everything from genetic material to indigenous culture to music and film on the Internet. To decide if and when genes or culture or digits are a kind of property that can be possessed, we must grapple with the nature of property itself. How does it originate? What purposes does it serve? Is it a natural right or one created by law? Accessible and mercifully free of legal jargon, American Property reveals the perpetual challenge of answering these questions, as new forms of property have emerged in response to technological and cultural change, and as ideas about the appropriate scope of government regulation have shifted. This first comprehensive history of property in the United States is a masterly guided tour through a contested human institution that touches all aspects of our lives and desires. Stuart Banner shows that property exists to serve a broad set of purposes, constantly in flux, that render the idea of property itself inconstant. Despite our ideals of ownership, property has always been a means toward other ends. What property signifies and what property is, we come to see, has consistently changed to match the world we want to acquire.
Women Property and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England
Author | : Margaret W. Ferguson,A. R. Buck,Nancy E. Wright |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0802087574 |
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Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England turns to these points of departure for the study of women's legal status and property relationships in the early modern period.