Married Women And Property Law In Victorian Ontario Download Pdf

Chambers anne lorene 1965 married women and property law in victorian ontario. In this well written monograph lori chambers carefully describes most of the major legal transformations to the rights of married women to property in ontario throughout the nineteenth.

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Married women and the law of property in victorian ontariountil this century married women had no legal right to hold use or dispose of property.

Married Women And Property Law In Victorian Ontario Book Depository. C93 was an act of parliament of the united kingdom that allowed married women to be the legal owners of the money they earned and to inherit property. The married womens property act 1870 33 34 vict. Until the middle of the 19th century married men held what amounted to a monopoly over property rights within canadian families.

Nineteenth century married womens property law reform provided the first tentative legal recognition of the wife as a being separate from her husband and remedial legislation in upper canada was part of a much wider international phenomenon¹ before these reforms were enacted the wifes legal identity was obliterated at marriage and she was entirely under the power and control of her husband. Published for the osgoode society for canadian legal history by university of toronto press 1997 dlc 97210553. In all common law jurisdictions professor chambers reminds us marriage for women represented civil death.

This paper reports patterns of property holding by women and men in late nineteenth century ontario immediately before and after legislation in 1872 and 1884 which permitted married women to hold. Until this century married women had no legal right to hold use or dispose of property. Married women and property law in victorian ontario by lori chambers.

By bettina bradbury published on 100199. S5oo cloth 1895 paper lori chamberss married women and property law in victorian ontario is a valuable addition to the path breaking work of constance backhouse on the canadian legal history of women and property. Under the common law inherited by the english speaking colonies a married woman could not enter into contracts sue or be sued.

Married women and property law in victorian ontario is essential reading for all those interested in the history of changes to womens rights in canada. Upon marriage her wages and personal property passed into her husbands possession. Married women and property law in victorian ontario by professor lori chambers lakehead university is a fascinating account of gender relationships in nineteenth century ontario as revealed through a series of laws which reflected victorian attitudes to marriage property and power.

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