The laws respecting women, as they regard their natural rights, or their connections and conduct
Subtitle: in which their interests and duties as daughters, wards, heiresses, spinsters, sisters, wives, widows, mothers, legatees, executrixes, &c., are ascertained and enumerated : also, the obligations of parent and child, and the condition of minors : the whole laid down according to the principles of the common and statute law, explained by the practice of the courts of law and equity, and describing the nature and extent of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction : in which are inserted a great variety of curious and important decisions in the different law courts, and the substance of the trial of Elizabeth, duchess dowager of Kingston, on an indictment for bigamy, before the House of peers, April 1776 : in four books.
Contributors: Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788.; Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for J. Johnson ...
Published: 1777
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
Subjects: Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788 -- Trials, litigation, etc; Kingston, Evelyn Pierrepont, Duke of, 1711-1773 -- Relations with women; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britain; Parent and child -- Great Britain; Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britain; Trials (Bigamy) -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Trials, litigation, etc.; Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Laws respecting women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Signatures: a⁸ b⁴ B-2G⁸ 2H².
LC copy imperfect: upper part of t.p. cut away, containing the first word of title "The."