Commentaries On The Law Of Married Women

Author : Charles Almy
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333227999
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book The Law of Married Women in Massachusetts (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Almy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Law of Married Women in Massachusetts With regard to the property of women, there is taxa tion without representation for they pay taxes without having the liberty of voting for representatives; and, indeed, there seems at present no substantial reason why single women should be denied this privilege. Though the chastity of women is protected from vio lence, yet a parent can have no reparation by our law from the seducer of his daughter's virtue but by stating that she is his servant, and that by the consequences of the seduction he is deprived of the benefit of her labor; or where the seducer at the same time is a trespasser upon the close or premises of the parent. But when by such forced circumstances the law can take cognizance of the offence, juries disregard the pretended injury, and give damages commensurate to the wounded feelings of a parent. Female virtue, by the temporal law, is perfectly ex posed to the slanders of malignity and falsehood; for any one may proclaim in conversation that the purest maid or chastest matron is the most meretricious and incontinent of women with impunity, or free from the animadversions of the temporal courts. Thus female honor, which is dearer to the sex than their lives, is left by the common law to be the sport of an abandoned calumniator. From this impartial statement of the account, I fear there is little reason to pay a compliment to our laws for their respect and favor to the female sex. The note of Mr. Christian, given above, states in a general way the condition of a. Married woman at common law. There were many other civil disabilities. The marriage was a merger of her whole legal being with that of her hus band, who was responsible for her support, for her torts, and for her crimes. She had no direct control over her property, but could, in some cases, bind that of her husband. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.