primogeniture in england

• Frank Must Marry Money: Men, Women, and Property in Trollope's Novels

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 ...

• Accounting Historians Journal, The
• Vol. 33 Nbr. 2, December 2006

• What is interculturalism?/Qu'est ce que l'interculturalisme?

... and several European countries, including England. We can define these accommodations as adjustments...Think of birthrights (primogeniture) and all the advantages conferred by virtue of sen...

• McGill Law Journal
• Vol. 56 Nbr. 2, February 2011

• Wolff v. Sparks, , 29 S.C.R. 585 (1899)

...ch. 6, abolishing the law of primogeniture in the province, placed no legislative interpretat...ch. 6, but in England, or similar to Baldwin v. Kingstone[7], where the ...

• Supreme Court of Canada