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Title Marriage and property / edited by Elizabeth M. Craik; foreword by J. Steven Watson
Published Aberdeen : Aberdeen University Press, 1984
Aberdeen : Aberdeen University Press, ©1984

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Description vi, 192 pages ; 24 cm
Contents I. Introduction -- II. Marriage in ancient Greece / Elizabeth M. Craik -- III. Free or not so free? Wives and daughters in the late roman republic / A.S. Gratwick -- IV. 'Treasure in heaven': property and inheritance among senators of late rome / Jill Harries -- V. Marriage and the status of women in norse society / Barbara E. Crawford -- VI. 'My wife shall have it': marriage and property in the wills and testaments of later mediaeval england / Ann J. Kettle -- VII. Some aspects of the law of marriage in Scotland: 1500-1700 / A.D.M. Forte -- VIII. 'A mere matter of business': marriage, divorce and the French revolution / Jennifer Birkett -- IX. Marriage and law reform in nineteenth-century America / Patricia Lucie -- X. Women and marriage in victorian society / Phillip Mallett
Analysis Matrimonal property. Law,. to 1900.Social aspects
Matrimonial property Law, to 1900. Social aspects
Notes Matrimonial property. Law,. to 1900. Social aspects (BNB/PRECIS)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Community property -- History.
Inheritance and succession.
Marital property -- History.
Marriage law -- History.
Marriage -- Economic aspects -- History.
Marriage -- History.
Separate property -- History.
Sociological jurisprudence.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Author Craik, Elizabeth M., editor
ISBN 0080284485
9780080284484