The laws respecting women
Subtitle: as they regard their natural rights, or their connections and conduct : 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
Series: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature -- no. 11626; Making of the Modern World
Publisher: Printed for J. Johnson
Published: 1777
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
Subjects: Women; Legal status, laws; Children; Parent and child
Notes: "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."

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Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 11626.
Table of contents: title: Book the 1st. Of the laws that respect the personal security, rights, and privileges of women; title: bk. the 2nd. Of the laws respecting the property of women; title: bk. the 3rd. Of the crimes committable by, and with women, and their punishments; title: bk. the 4th. Of the laws concerning parents and children, and the interests of infants.