Women and the law
- Title:
- The lavves resolutions of womens rights, or, The lavves prouision for woemen: a methodicall collection of such statutes and customes, with the cases, opinions, arguments and points of learning in the lavv, as doe properly concerne women: together with a compendious table, whereby the chiefe matters in this booke contained, may be the more readily found
- Publication/Origin:
- London: Printed by the Assignes of Iohn More Esq. and are to be Sold by Iohn Groue, 1632
- Description:
- The Lavves Resolutions of Womens Rights was the first work devoted to the laws and rights of women in English law. The unidentified author reasoned that as women were subject to laws they should have access to information about them. The text is largely about property, inheritance, dowry, and the rights assumed or lost when a woman enters into marriage, is widowed, or divorces. Rape and wife beating are considered within the codification of the law. The work lacks practical details, refers to obscure case law, and uses technical terminology, making it more helpful to lawyers than to women themselves.
- Citation:
- The lavves resolutions of womens rights, or, The lavves prouision for woemen: a methodicall collection of such statutes and customes, with the cases, opinions, arguments and points of learning in the lavv, as doe properly concerne women: together with a compendious table, whereby the chiefe matters in this booke contained, may be the more readily found, London: Printed by the Assignes of Iohn More Esq. and are to be Sold by Iohn Groue, 1632, Lisa Unger Baskin Collection, Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Accessed April 16, 2024, https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/baskin/item/3983