A Short History of Women's Rights: From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time : with Special Reference to England and the United StatesG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1910 - 292 páginas |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Absolute divorce Absolute for adultery acrobatic adultery AGE OF LEGAL allowed Aulus Gellius bankers bigamy canon law carpenters Causa century child under 14 Christian Church Codex commercial travellers controls own earn court curtesy curtesy prevail daughter death dentists doctors dowry factory father female employees Gaius girls Gratian guardian of children guilty habitual drunkenness HUSBAND AND WIFE Husband is guardian Husband is legal husband or wife INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL ings inheritance intestate journalists Justinian LABOUR LAWS lawyers LEGAL CONSENT legal guardian Lex Burgundionum Lex Saxonum Lex Wisigothorum limited divorce Lipsiae Teubner marriage married morals neglect to provide notaries public Papinian party Paulus Pliny POLITICAL CONDITION POPULATION PROFESSIONAL STATUS professors provided for female Quaest recognovit Roman law saloon keepers school suffrage separate property slaves suffrage Tacitus tion Ulpian uxorem Visigoths vote widow Wife controls wilful desertion woman women in ministry women's rights
Pasajes populares
Página 51 - But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery : and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Página 271 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.
Página 157 - He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead. He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.
Página 275 - A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Página 155 - When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal...
Página 158 - ... monopolized nearly all the profitable employments, and from those she is permitted to follow, she receives but a scanty remuneration. He closes against her all the avenues to wealth and distinction, which he considers most honorable to himself.
Página 270 - The extreme violence of opinion subsides. Hostile theories correct each other. The scattered elements of truth cease to contend, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos.
Página 118 - A fourth rule or canon of descent is this ; that the lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor ; that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done, had he been living.
Página 281 - That woman's physical structure and the performance of maternal functions place her at a disadvantage in the struggle for subsistence is obvious. This is especially true when the burdens of motherhood are upon her. Even when they are not, by abundant testimony of the medical fraternity continuance for a long time on her feet at work, repeating this from day to day, tends to injurious effects...