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Women waging law in Elizabethan England.
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Publication details:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Record id:
18062
Author:
Series:
Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
Subject:
Women -- Legal status, laws etc -- History.
Women's rights -- History.
Justice, Administration of -- History.
Trials -- History.
Law -- History.
Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Women, legal rights and law courts
Historiography
Equity
Ecclesiastical law
Custom
Common law
Legal theory versus practice
Numbers of female litigants
3. Female litigants and the culture of litigation
Contemporary opinion
Satire and drama
4. The Court of Requests
Background and history
Volume of litigation
Jurisdiction
Procedure
Determination and remedies
Conciliation and arbitration
Cost
Effectiveness
The masters of requests and the ethos of the court
The status of litigants
Women's litigation versus men's litigation
5 Unmarried women and widows
Unmarried women
Widows
Marriage settlements, jointures, uses and trusts
Counsel and agents
6. Married women in Requests
Coverture
Wives with their husbands
Wives against their husbands
7. Freebench, custom and equity
The nature of custom
Widow's estate
Copyholds for lives
The Masters' response
Custom versus the common law
8. Pleading strategies in Requests
Poverty
Mapping high and low moral ground
The meaning of stories
9. Women waging law
Barriers to litigation
Changing structures
Legal records and legal rights.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-264) and index.
ISBN:
0521495547
Phys. description:
xv, 271 p. ; 23 cm