Women and the Law of Property in Early America

Name: Women and the Law of Property in Early America
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ISBN: 9780807842447

ISBN-10: 0807842443

ISBN-13: 9780807842447

Edition: 1989

Authors: Marylynn Salmon

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In this first comprehensive study of women's property rights in early America, Marylynn Salmon discusses the effect of formal rules of law on women's lives. By focusing on such areas such as conveyancing, contracts, divorce, separate estates, and widows' provisions, Salmon presents a full picture of women's legal rights from 1750 to 1830. Salmon shows that the law assumes women would remain dependent and subservient after marriage. She documents the legal rights of women prior to the Revolution and traces a gradual but steady extension of the ability of wives to own and control property during the decades following the Revolution. The forces of change in colonial and early national law were…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/8/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 285
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 1.034

Marylynn Salmon is coauthor of Inheritance and the Evolution of Capitalism and the Family in America.



Acknowledgments


Preface



Diversity in American Law



Conveyances



Contracts



Divorce and Separation



Separate Estates



Separate Estates in New England



Provisions for Widows


Conclusion


Notes


Selected Bibliography


General Index


Index to Cases