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Married Women and the Law of Property in Victorian Ontario.
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
1997.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Colección: | Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 'So Entirely under His Power and Control': The Status of Wives before Reform
- 2 'A Life That Is Simply Intolerable': Alimony and the Protection of Wives
- 3 'To Properly Protect Her Property': Marriage Settlements in Upper Canada
- 4 'If the Laws Were Made More Salutary': The Act of 1859
- 5 'The Difference between Women's Rights and Women's Wrongs': The Acts of 1872 and 1873
- 6 'Many Frauds Not Previously Practicable': Creditors and the Acts of 1859 and 1872
- 7 'But How Are You to Exempt it from His Control?': Abuse of Trust by Husbands
- 8 'A Thing of Shreds and Patches': The Act of 1884
- 9 'Lending Aid or Encouragement to Fraudulent and Dishonest Practices': Wives and Their Creditors after 1884
- 10 'Being Terrified and in Fear of Violence': The Limitations of Separate Property as a Protective Device
- Conclusions and Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- B
- C
- D
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