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Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England

Tim Stretton
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      This book investigates the surprisingly large number of women who participated in the vast expansion of litigation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Making use of legal sources, literary texts, and the neglected records of the Court of Requests, it describes women's rights under different jurisdictions, considers attitudes to women going to court, and reveals how female litigants used the law, as well as fell victim to it. In the central courts of Westminster, maidservants sued their masters, widows sued their creditors, and in defiance of a barrage of theoretical prohibitions, wives sued their husbands. The law was undoubtedly discriminatory, but certain women pursued actively such rights as they possessed. Some appeared as angry plaintiffs, while others played upon their poverty and vulnerability. A special feature of this study is the attention it pays to the different language and tactics that distinguish women's pleadings from men's pleadings within a national equity court.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Tim Stretton EAN: 9780521495547 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 580 g HEIGHT: 237 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1998-10-22 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General WIDTH: 158 cm SPINE:

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      England, c 1500 onwards to present day, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Gender studies: women and girls, European history: medieval period, middle ages

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      This book investigates the surprisingly large number of women who participated in the vast expansion of litigation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Making use of legal sources, literary texts, and the neglected records of the Court of Requests, it describes women's rights under different jurisdictions, considers attitudes to women going to court, and reveals how female litigants used the law, as well as fell victim to it. In the central courts of Westminster, maidservants sued their masters, widows sued their creditors, and in defiance of a barrage of theoretical prohibitions, wives sued their husbands. The law was undoubtedly discriminatory, but certain women pursued actively such rights as they possessed. Some appeared as angry plaintiffs, while others played upon their poverty and vulnerability. A special feature of this study is the attention it pays to the different language and tactics that distinguish women's pleadings from men's pleadings within a national equity court.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Tim Stretton EAN: 9780521495547 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 580 g HEIGHT: 237 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1998-10-22 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General WIDTH: 158 cm SPINE:

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      England, c 1500 onwards to present day, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Gender studies: women and girls, European history: medieval period, middle ages

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