Married Women And Property Law In Victorian Ontario
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Anne Lorene Chambers,Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Author : Anne Lorene Chambers,Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Publisher : University of Toronto Press Page : 1388 pages File Size : 41,5 Mb Release : 1997-01-01 Category : Law ISBN : 0802078397
Married Women and Property Law in Victorian Ontario by Anne Lorene Chambers,Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Pdf
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.
Author : Lee Holcombe Publisher : University of Toronto Press Page : 320 pages File Size : 47,8 Mb Release : 1983-12-15 Category : Law ISBN : 9781487590185
In the 1870s Millicent Garrett Fawcett had her purse snatched by a young thief in London. When he appeared in court to testify, she heard the young man charged with 'stealing from the person of Millicent Fawcett a purse containing £1 18s 6d the property of Henry Fawcett.' Long after the episode she recalled: 'I felt as if I had been charged with theft myself.' The English common law which deprived married women of the right to own and control property had far-reaching consequences for the status of women not only in other areas of law and in family life but also in education, and employment, and public life. To win reform of the married women's property law, feminism as an organized movement appeared in the 1850s, and the final success of the campaigns for reform in 1882 was one of the greatest achievements of the Victorian women's movement. Dr Holcombe explores the story of the reform campaign in the context of its time, giving particular attention to the many important men and women who worked for reform and to the debates on the subject which contributed greatly to the formulation of a philosophy of feminism.
The Married Women's Property Acts of Ontario by Richard Thomas Walkem Pdf
Excerpt from The Married Women's Property Acts of Ontario: Being Con. Stat. U. C., C. 73; 35 Vict., C. 16, Ont., And 36 Vict., C. 18, Ont.; With Notes of the English and Canadian Cases Bearing Upon Their Construction, and Observations Respecting the Interests of Husbands in the Property of Their Wives The interest, which a husband acquired in his wife's real Effect estate upon marriage was of a character much less ample rime 0 es than that which he acquired in her personal estate. The fee simme in her real estate remained in her, but the hus band by the marriage acquired a freehold interest therein, for their, joint lives, both being seized together in her right by entireties; and, upon birth of issue of the mar riage, the husband's interest became enlarged into an estate for his own life - the estate by the curtesy. The disabilities of married women created by coverture, Blackstone's being, as Blackstone remarks, intended for the wife's firm-mfg. Benefit, are cited by him as a proof of the high favour in a. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Married Women's Property Acts of Ontario [microform] by Richard Thomas B 1840 Walkem,Etc O Ontario Laws Pdf
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Married Women and the Law by Tim Stretton,Krista J. Kesselring Pdf
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).
The Married Women's Property Acts of Ontario by Richard Thomas Walkem Pdf
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The Married Women's Property Acts of Ontario by Richard Thomas Walkem Pdf
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Author : G. Blaine Baker,Donald Fyson Publisher : University of Toronto Press Page : 609 pages File Size : 48,6 Mb Release : 1981-01-01 Category : History ISBN : 9781442648159
Essays in the History of Canadian Law by G. Blaine Baker,Donald Fyson Pdf
The essays in this volume deal with the legal history of the Province of Quebec, Upper and Lower Canada, and the Province of Canada between the British conquest of 1759 and confederation of the British North America colonies in 1867. The backbone of the modern Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, this geographic area was unified politically for more than half of the period under consideration. As such, four of the papers are set in the geographic cradle of modern Quebec, four treat nineteenth-century Ontario, and the remaining four deal with the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes watershed as a whole. The authors come from disciplines as diverse as history, socio-legal studies, women's studies, and law. The majority make substantial use of second-language sources in their essays, which shade into intellectual history, social and family history, regulatory history, and political history.
Author : George Blaine Baker,Donald Fyson Publisher : University of Toronto Press Page : 608 pages File Size : 44,8 Mb Release : 2013-12-06 Category : History ISBN : 9781442670068
Essays in the History of Canadian Law by George Blaine Baker,Donald Fyson Pdf
The essays in this volume deal with the legal history of the Province of Quebec, Upper and Lower Canada, and the Province of Canada between the British conquest of 1759 and confederation of the British North America colonies in 1867. The backbone of the modern Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, this geographic area was unified politically for more than half of the period under consideration. As such, four of the papers are set in the geographic cradle of modern Quebec, four treat nineteenth-century Ontario, and the remaining four deal with the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes watershed as a whole. The authors come from disciplines as diverse as history, socio-legal studies, women’s studies, and law. The majority make substantial use of second-language sources in their essays, which shade into intellectual history, social and family history, regulatory history, and political history.