Title: 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
Subjects: Trials, litigation, Commitment and detention, Married women, Mentally ill, Legal status, laws, History
Places: Illinois
People: E. P. W. Packard (1816-1897)
Time periods: 19th century