Author: Charles AlmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Married women
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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The Law of Married Women in Massachusetts
Author: Charles AlmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Married women
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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The Law of Married Women in Massachusetts
Author: George Alexander Otis ErnstPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Married women
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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The Legal Status of Married Women in Massachusetts
Author: George Alexander Otis ErnstPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Married women
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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The Law of Married Women in Massachusetts
Author: Charles ALMY (and FULLER (Horace W.))Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Women and the Law of Property in Early America
Author: Marylynn SalmonPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Women and the Law of Property in Early America
Married Women and the Law
Author: Tim StrettonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773590145
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
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 Law of Married Women in Massachusetts
Author: Charles AlmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Married women
Languages : en
Pages : 119
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Women Under the Law of Massachusetts
Author: Henry Harrison SpraguePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Notes on the Revised Laws of Massachusetts
Author: Uriel Haskell CrockerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Annotations and citations (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
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A Treatise on the Law of Contracts of Married Women
Author: John Francis KellyPublisher:
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Category : Contracts
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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