1st Edition

Legal Treatises Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III, Part One, Volume 3

By Lynne A. Greenberg Copyright 2005
616 Pages
by Routledge

616 Pages
by Routledge

The texts reproduced in facsimile in the three volumes of 'Legal Treatises' reconstruct the legal status of the early modern Englishwoman. To facilitate a reading of the treatises by broadly defining many of the laws discussed in great detail in the treatises, a general introduction to the laws of the period provides concise overviews of the structure of the English legal system; the legal... Read more
Volume 3, Preface by the General Editors, Introductory Note, Baron and Feme: A Treatise of Law and Equity, Concerning Husbands and Wives (3rd ed., 1738)

Biography

Lynne A Greenberg