Women Under the Law of Massachusetts: Their Rights, Privileges, and Disabilities

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Little, Brown, 1903 - 100 ページ
This book discusses the rights, privileges, and disabilities of women under Massachusetts law, and points in particular to the laws which protect men and ignore women.
 

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11 ページ - Any woman who is now or may hereafter be married to a citizen of the United States, and who might herself be lawfully naturalized, shall be deemed a citizen.
68 ページ - Yet the lower rank of people, who were always fond of the old common law, still claim and exert their ancient privilege: and the courts of law will still permit a husband to restrain a wife of her liberty, in case of any gross misbehaviour.
13 ページ - Every male citizen of twenty-one years of age and upwards (excepting paupers and persons under guardianship), who shall have resided within the Commonwealth one year, and within the town or district, in which he may claim a right to vote...
11 ページ - The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States provides that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
21 ページ - ... nor to any person who now has the right to vote, nor to any person who shall be sixty years of age or upwards...
35 ページ - All work and labor performed by a married woman for a person other than her husband and children shall, unless there is an express agreement on her part to the contrary, be presumed to be performed on her separate account.
63 ページ - The widow shall have the right of interment, for her own body in such lot, or in a tomb in such lot and a right to have her body remain permanently interred or entombed therein, except that her body may be removed therefrom to some other family lot or tomb with the consent of her heirs.
68 ページ - The husband also, by the old law, might give his wife moderate correction. For, as he is to answer for her misbehavior, the law thought it reasonable to intrust him with jthe power of restraining her, by domestic chastisement...
59 ページ - Every person of full age and sound mind may, by his last will in writing, signed by him or by a person in his presence and by his express direction, and attested and subscribed in his presence by three or more competent witnesses...
18 ページ - Commonwealth (Massachusetts) with any absolute right, independent of legislation, to take part in the government either as a voter or as an officer, or to be admitted to practice as an attorney.

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