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Zustand: New. In English.

Rev. ed. Free end papers browned; hinges cracked & repaired; owner's insription on half-title page; some loss of colour to green cloth on front board; spine darkened, with wear at head & foot & dull gilt. Used - Good. Good hardback in green cloth Used - Good. Good hardback in green cloth.

, 2 uniform volumes, pages [cxxxvii] 0-779 [139], and [xii] 782-1528 [139] Fifth Edition , snall tears to spine ends, corners scuffed, hinges split but boards held, ex-library copies with labels at front end papers and lower spines, darkened at spines and edges, hinges weakened, text clean, books in fair condition , dark blue cloth with gilt titles thick octavo Hardback ISBN.…

First edition of this landmark in British legislation for the rights of women, protecting married women against physical abuse and neglect, and allowing custody of children to deserted wives. Consolidating the 1878 Matrimonial Causes Act and the 1886 Married Women (Maintenance in the Case of Desertion) Act, it extended the power of magistrates in cases where husbands wilfully neglected to maintain their wives and families, providing "the basic grounds for maintenance and separation orders that were in force until the 1960 Act introduced modifications (Smart, p. 31). Prior to this, "the law tacitly assumed that when she married a woman lost some of the right to bodily autonomy she had enjoyed when single. A married woman remained obliged to cohabit with her abusive husband unless she could afford to pay for a judicial separation from the Divorce Court. This, combined with the provision of a Divorce Act that a wife but not a husband could be divorced for adultery alone, constituted virtually a proprietary right by husbands in their wives' bodies (Shanley, p. 176). Uncommon, with twelve copies located on WorldCat (five in the UK and US respectively). See Carol Smart, The Ties That Bind: Law, Marriage and the Reproduction of Patriarchal Relations; Mary Lyndon Shanley, Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England. Octavo. Original green cloth, title to spine and front cover in gilt. Spine a little darkened and rubbed at ends. An excellent, fresh copy.…