Author: Charles Michael JacobsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Husband and wife
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Litigation of Husband and Wife
Author: Charles Michael JacobsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Husband and wife
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Litigation of Husband and Wife
Author: Charles Michael Jacobs (l875 (11 Feb.)-)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Husband and wife
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Litigation of Husband and Wife
Author: JacobsThe Law of Husband and Wife
Author: Litigation of Husband and Wife
Author: Charles Michael Jacobs (l875 (11 Feb.)-)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Husband and wife
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
Litigation of Husband and Wife
Author: Charles M. JacobsA Concise View of the Law of Husband and Wife: As Modified by the Married Women's Property Acts (1883)
Author: Joseph Haworth RedmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781436722865
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Man and Wife in America
Author: Hendrik HartogPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674038394
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
In nineteenth-century America, the law insisted that marriage was a permanent relationship defined by the husband's authority and the wife's dependence. Yet at the same time the law created the means to escape that relationship. How was this possible? And how did wives and husbands experience marriage within that legal regime? These are the complexities that Hendrik Hartog plumbs in a study of the powers of law and its limits. Exploring a century and a half of marriage through stories of struggle and conflict mined from case records, Hartog shatters the myth of a golden age of stable marriage. He describes the myriad ways the law shaped and defined marital relations and spousal identities, and how individuals manipulated and reshaped the rules of the American states to fit their needs. We witness a compelling cast of characters: wives who attempted to leave abusive husbands, women who manipulated their marital status for personal advantage, accidental and intentional bigamists, men who killed their wives' lovers, couples who insisted on divorce in a legal culture that denied them that right. As we watch and listen to these men and women, enmeshed in law and escaping from marriages, we catch reflected images both of ourselves and our parents, of our desires and our anxieties about marriage. Hartog shows how our own conflicts and confusions about marital roles and identities are rooted in the history of marriage and the legal struggles that defined and transformed it.
Civil Practice and Remedies Code
Author: TexasMarried 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).