Married Women and the Law of Property in Victorian Ontario / / Lori Chambers.
Until this century, married women had no legal right to hold, use, or dispose of property. Since the ownership of property is a critical measure of social status, the married women's property acts of the nineteenth century were important landmarks in the legal emancipation of women. Reform camp...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword: The OSGOODE Society for Canadian Legal History
- 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
- Backmatter