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There is a continuing debate about the extent to which women in the 19th century were involved in economic life. A sutdy utilizes a reading of a number of novels by the English author Anthony Trollope to explore the impact of primogeniture, entail, and the marriage settlement on the relationship between men and women and the extent to which women were involved in the ownership, transmission, and management of property in England in the mid-19th century. The marriage settlement, primogeniture, and entail play a crucial role in Trollope's plots, in the creation and transmission of family wealth. Although Trollope's treatment of them is ambivalent, they have negative as well as positive consequences. The portion and the settlement appear as indispensable elements of marriage, but with the ...
... independence, summed up by Davidoff and Hall [1987, pp. 15, 275-276]: "Absence of property as c...,' but parchment ones - and settlements, and dower" in protection of his daughter. He also cites the ...
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... A Bad Thing After All)" (1997), 35 Osgoode Hall L.J. 75. Jackman, Martha. "Protecting Rights and P...4103). It is of interest that dower, the old life interest held by a widow in her dece...
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... a freehold, estates in property, and dower, in which the law is well established and "the jud...In a 1971 speech, Justice Emmett Hall said that it was then not open to question that th...
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...Perhaps he recognizes his wife's claim to dower or something, I don't know. "..we... "..Before entering the waiting hall, the passenger hands over his passport, and the ex...
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...-"Dying without issue"-"Revert"-Dower-Annuity-Election by widow-Devolution of Estates Ac...Moss Q.C. and Hall for the appellants. According to O'Mahony v. Burde...
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...and Fauteux, Martland, Hall and Pigeon JJ. ON APPEAL FROM THE EXCHEQUER COURT ... for an allowance from her husband and her dower rights. In 1961, the appellant sought to deduct, a...
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...Present: Judson, Hall, Spence, Pigeon and Laskin JJ. ON APPEAL FROM THE ... Rushton and his wife who had joined to bar dower. In the ensuing proceedings it appeared that Paul ...
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...: Cartwright, Martland, Judson, Ritchie and Hall JJ. ON APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEAL FOR SASKATC... from the corresponding provisions of The Dower Act of Alberta which were considered by this Court...
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...Present: Abbott, Hall, Spence, Pigeon and Laskin JJ. ON APPEAL FROM THE ...Sheahan, possessed an inchoate right of dower. Notice of expropriation was given on October 4, 1...
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...Mousseau (1896), 6 Que. Q.B. 474, where Hall J.A. wrote at p. 480:. It is obvious that a petiti... which have not opened and from common law dower which has not become choate. By art. 711 C.C.P. th...