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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Stretton, Tim, 1963-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Collection:Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.