Women waging law in Elizabethan England /

This book investigates the surprisingly large number of women who participated in the vast expansion of litigation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Making use of legal sources, literary texts, and the neglected records of the Court of Requests, it describes women's rights under di...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stretton, Tim, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Series:Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
Subjects:
1500-1599
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > England > History > 16th century.
Justice, Administration of > England > History > 16th century.
Trials > England.
Procès > Angleterre.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Justice, Administration of.
Trials.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Vrouwen.
Rechtspraak.
England.
Engeland.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Women, legal rights and law courts
  • 3. Female litigants and the culture of litigation
  • 4. The court of requests
  • 5. Unmarried women and widows
  • 6. Married women
  • 7. Freebench, custom and equity
  • 8. Pleading strategies in requests
  • 9. Women waging law.

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