Isbn: 9780080284484 - marriage and property (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Rear board is water-stained and front board has light water-stain to edge. Last few pages have light rippling along lower section (water-staining). DJ has mild rippling and water-staining.; E. M. Craik: Marriage in Ancient Greece; A. S. Gratwick: Free or Not So Free? Wives and Daughters in the Late Roman Republic; J. HARRIES: 'Treasure in heaven': Property and Inheritance Among Senators of Late Rome; Barbara E. Crawford: Marriage and the Status of Women in Norse Society; Ann J. Kettle: 'My Wife Shall Have It': marriage and Property in the Wills and Testaments of Later Mediaeval England; M. Forte: Some Aspects of the Law of Marriage in Scotland: 1500-1700 A. D. ; Jennifer Birkett: 'A Mere Matter of Business' Marriage, Divorce and the French Revolution; Patricia Lucie: Marriage and Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century America; Phillip Mallett: Women and Marriage in Victorian Society.; 192 pages. …

1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; vi, 192 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; I. Introduction -- II. Marriage in ancient Greece / Elizabeth M. Craik -- III. Free or not so free? Wives and daughters in the late roman republic / A.S. Gratwick -- IV. 'Treasure in heaven': property and inheritance among senators of late rome / Jill Harries -- V. Marriage and the status of women in norse society / Barbara E. Crawford -- VI. 'My wife shall have it': marriage and property in the wills and testaments of later mediaeval england / Ann J. Kettle -- VII. Some aspects of the law of marriage in Scotland: 1500-1700 / A.D.M. Forte -- VIII. 'A mere matter of business': marriage, divorce and the French revolution / Jennifer Birkett -- IX. Marriage and law reform in nineteenth-century America / Patricia Lucie -- X. Women and marriage in victorian society / Phillip Mallett. Subjects; Marriage History. Marital property History. Separate property History. Community property History. Sociological jurisprudence. Women Legal status, laws, etc. Marriage law. Matrimonial property Law, to 1900. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher's hardback in very good condition, just showing a bump to the lower fore-edge. Complete with original dustjacket: slightly edge-worn and a little rubbed, even so still showing well. Contents tight and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. A perfectly good reading copy.…

Aberdeen University Press, 1984. IX,192p. Cloth. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. A.o.: E.M. CRAIK: Marriage in Ancient Greece (pp.6-30); A.S. GRATWICK: Free or Not So Free? Wives and Daughters in the Late Roman Republic (pp.30-54); J. HARRIES: ?Treasure in heaven?: Property and Inheritance Among Senators of Late Rome (pp.54-71). ?Mrs. Craik and her eight companions have been trained in different ways of thought. They look at different epochs. Yet certain themes recur. It seems to me that the reader cannot but become wiser as he compares these essays one with another and makes his own generalisations about the way in which our institutions have been affected by contract which are the basis of the family and of so much more.? (J. STEVEN WATSON in his Foreword, p. VI). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover.…