Marital power exemplified in Mrs. Packard's trial, and self-defence from the charge of insanity, or Three years' imprisonment for religious belief, by the arbitrary will of a husband, with an appeal to the government to so change the laws as to afford legal protection to married women
By: by Mrs. E.P.W. Packard
Contributors: Moore, Stephen R.
Publisher: Published by Case, Lockwood
Published: 1867
Place of publication: Hartford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Commitment and detention; Married women; Mentally ill; Legal status, laws; History
Other titles: Three years' imprisonment for religious belief ...
Notes: "This case was on trial before the Hon. Charles R. Starr [judge of the 20th Judicial Circuit of Illinois] at Kankakee City, Illinois, from Monday, January 11th, 1864, to Tuesday the 19th, and came up on an application made by Mrs. Packard, under the Habeas Corpus Act, to be discharged from imprisonment by her husband in their own house."--P. [12].

"The great trial of Mrs. Elizabeth P.W. Packard ... A full report of the trial, incidents, etc. by Stephen R. Moore ...": p. [12]-41.

"Mrs. Packard's address to the Illinois Legislature" (21 p.) at end.