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Married Women and the Law of Property in Victorian Ontario /
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto, Ont. :
Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press,
1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""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""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""