Governing the hearth : law and the family in nineteenth-century America /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[1985]
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| Series: | Studies in legal history.
UNC Press law publications. Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Domestic relations: a law for Republican families
- Broken promises: judges and the law of courtship
- Nuptial license: the regulation of weddings
- Matrimonial limitations: who's fit to wed?
- Contraception and abortion: who controls the womb?
- Bastard rights: recognizing a new family member
- Custody rights: who gets the child?
- A judicial patriarchy: family law at the turn of the century.