Married Women and the Law of Property in Victorian Ontario by Lori Chambers

Married Women and the Law of Property in Victorian Ontario

Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History

Lori Chambers

272 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction gender history sociology medium-paced
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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...

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