Author: Ocie SpeerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Divorce
Languages : en
Pages : 1174
Book Description
A Treatise on the Law of Marital Rights in Texas
Author: Ocie SpeerA Treatise on the Law of Married Women in Texas
Author: Ocie SpeerThe Law As to the Property Rights of Married Women, As Contained in the Statutes and Decisions of California, Texas, and Nevada
Author: Horace Garvin PlattPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781020730863
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A legal treatise on the property rights of married women, focusing on the laws and court decisions of California, Texas, and Nevada. Platt provides a thorough and scholarly analysis of the complex legal issues surrounding women's property rights in the context of marriage, and offers practical advice for lawyers and laypeople alike. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
A Treatise on the Laws of Texas Relating to Real Estate
Author: John SaylesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Real property
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
A Treatise on the Law of Community Property
Author: George McKayPublisher:
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Category : Community property
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Homesteads Ungovernable
Author: Mark M. CarrollPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 029278273X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
When he settled in Mexican Texas in 1832 and began courting Anna Raguet, Sam Houston had been separated from his Tennessee wife Eliza Allen for three years, while having already married and divorced his Cherokee wife Tiana and at least two other Indian "wives" during the interval. Houston's political enemies derided these marital irregularities, but in fact Houston's legal and extralegal marriages hardly set him apart from many other Texas men at a time when illicit and unstable unions were common in the yet-to-be-formed Lone Star State. In this book, Mark Carroll draws on legal and social history to trace the evolution of sexual, family, and racial-caste relations in the most turbulent polity on the southern frontier during the antebellum period (1823-1860). He finds that the marriages of settlers in Texas were typically born of economic necessity and that, with few white women available, Anglo men frequently partnered with Native American, Tejano, and black women. While identifying a multicultural array of gender roles that combined with law and frontier disorder to destabilize the marriages of homesteaders, he also reveals how harsh living conditions, land policies, and property rules prompted settling spouses to cooperate for survival and mutual economic gain. Of equal importance, he reveals how evolving Texas law reinforced the substantial autonomy of Anglo women and provided them material rewards, even as it ensured that cross-racial sexual relationships and their reproductive consequences comported with slavery and a regime that dispossessed and subordinated free blacks, Native Americans, and Tejanos.
A Treatise on the Legal and Equitable Rights of Married Women
Author: William Harland CordPublisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
What Comes Naturally
Author: Peggy PascoePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199723249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A long-awaited history that promises to dramatically change our understanding of race in America, What Comes Naturally traces the origins, spread, and demise of miscegenation laws in the United States--laws that banned interracial marriage and sex, most often between whites and members of other races. Peggy Pascoe demonstrates how these laws were enacted and applied not just in the South but throughout most of the country, in the West, the North, and the Midwest. Beginning in the Reconstruction era, when the term miscegenation first was coined, she traces the creation of a racial hierarchy that bolstered white supremacy and banned the marriage of Whites to Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, and American Indians as well as the marriage of Whites to Blacks. She ends not simply with the landmark 1967 case of Loving v. Virginia, in which the Supreme Court finally struck down miscegenation laws throughout the country, but looks at the implications of ideas of colorblindness that replaced them. What Comes Naturally is both accessible to the general reader and informative to the specialist, a rare feat for an original work of history based on archival research.
A Treatise on the Law of Marriage, Divorce, Separation, and Domestic Relations: Domestic relations
Author: James SchoulerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Divorce
Languages : en
Pages : 1384
Book Description
A Treatise on the Law of Domestic Relations
Author: Joseph Ragland LongPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Domestic relations
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
This book has been written to supply a need which I have personally felt as a teacher of law. In writing it I have kept my own students constantly in mind, and have endeavored to set forth those principles of the law which I thought they ought to know, in such a manner as to be most readily grasped by them. In all cases my aim has been to present and emphasize principles, rather than the details of their application, such details being supplied only so far as seemed desirable for purposes of illustration. In the apportionment of space among the several branches of the subject, I have acted according to my best judgment as to the relative importance to the student of each topic in the present state of the law; in some instances devoting to a particular topic more, and in others less, space, relatively, than is done in other works written specially for the practioner. -- Preface.