Explaining the curious legal doctrine of "coverture," William Blackstone famously declared that "by marri
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Inquiries into how law shaped the effects of marriage for generations of women.
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A meticulously researched and revisionist study of the nineteenth-century Ontario?s Married Women's Property Acts.
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Until this century, married women had no legal right to hold, use, or dispose of property. Since the ownership of proper
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Apex Courts and the Common Law considers the influence of the courts at the apex of national legal systems on the develo
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The recognition and enforcement of legitimate expectations by courts has been a striking feature of English law since R
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The delict of iniuria is among the most sophisticated products of the Roman legal tradition. The original focus of the d
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Banished investigates Puritan practices of social exclusion through the lens of seventeenth-century New England common l
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This book analyses the common law’s approach to retroactivity. The central claim is that when a court considers whether
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В монографии освещаются основные аспекты земельного и имущественного права, действующего в Англии, Уэльсе, Северной Ирла
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