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Author | : Tim Stretton |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2013-12-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0773590145 |
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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).
Author | : Cordelia Beattie |
Publisher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843838338 |
Download Married Women and the Law in Premodern Northwest Europe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fresh approaches to how premodern women were viewed in legal terms, demonstrating how this varied from country to country and across the centuries.
Author | : Ocie Speer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Divorce |
ISBN | : |
Download A Treatise on the Law of Married Women in Texas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Tim Stretton |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2013-12-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0773590145 |
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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).
Author | : Anne Lorene Chambers |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 1388 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780802078391 |
Download Married Women and Property Law in Victorian Ontario Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Reuben Knox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Married women |
ISBN | : |
Download The Law of Married Women in New Jersey Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Joel Prentiss Bishop |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 796 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : |
Download Commentaries on the Law of Married Women Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Elizabeth Brake |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2012-03-15 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0199774137 |
Download Minimizing Marriage Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book addresses fundamental questions about marriage in moral and political philosophy. It examines promise, commitment, care, and contract to argue that marriage is not morally transformative. It argues that marriage discriminates against other forms of caring relationships and that, legally, restrictions on entry should be minimized.
Author | : Bishop |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 1875 |
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Download Commentaries on the Law of Married Women Under the Statutes of the Several States Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Marylynn Salmon |
Publisher | : Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Download Women and the Law of Property in Early America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Women and the Law of Property in Early America