Women and the Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constance B. Backhouse
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Law ◽  
Women And The Law

scholarly journals Blinded Like a State: The Revolt against Civil Registration in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

2006 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara Loveman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Civil Registration ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
The Law

The first reports of popular disturbances in connection with Decree 798, calling for obligatory civil registration of births and deaths in the Brazilian empire, surfaced in the early days of January 1852. In the ensuing weeks, men, women, and children from across the impoverished northeastern Brazilian backlands convened in small settlements and towns to protest the decree. Local authorities reported being forced to abandon their posts, fleeing from the “mass of ignorants,” who, armed with knives and stones, threatened violence against those who would implement the law. Disturbances were reported in at least thirty-one localities, with crowds estimated at one hundred to several thousand people.

Married Women Bankrupts in the Age of Coverture

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (02) ◽  
pp. 265-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Pearlston
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Married Woman ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Separate Property ◽  
The Law

Many married women with separate property held their property as stock‐in‐trade and traded independently from their husbands. However, if the business failed, a married woman trader's ability to take advantage of bankruptcy process depended on the exception to coverture according to which she held her separate property. This article is the first to examine reported bankruptcy cases involving married women in their doctrinal context and in relation to other exceptions to coverture. It analyzes the issues arising in the eighteenth century and argues that they should be understood in relation to the larger picture of married women's law, especially the law of private separation. The article also considers the oblique relationship between private separation jurisprudence and married women's bankruptcy in the nineteenth century, a relationship that was bridged by a line of cases that, on the surface, seem to be unrelated.

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