The laws respecting women, as they regard their natural rights, or their connections and conduct; in which their interests and duties as daughters, wards, heiresses, spinsters, sisters, wives, widows, mothers, legatees, executrixes, &c. are ascertained and enumerated: also, the obligations of parent and child, And the Condition of minors. The Whole laid down according to the Principles of the Common and Statute Law, explained by the Practice of the Courts of Law and Equity, and describing the Nature and Extent of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction. In which are inserted a great Variety of curious and important Decisions in the different Law Courts, and the Substance of the Trial of Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston, on an Indictment for Bigamy, before the House of Peers, April 1776. In four books.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parent and child--Great Britain.

Parent and child.

Women--Legal status, laws, etc--Great Britain.

Women.

Children--Legal status, laws, etc--Great Britain.

Children.

Trials (Bigamy)--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Trials (Bigamy).

Kingston, Evelyn Pierrepont, Duke of, 1711-1773--Relations with women.

Kingston, Evelyn Pierrepont.

Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788--Trials, litigation, etc.

Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii,[1],449,[15]p. )

Other Title:

Laws respecting women,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, MDCCLXXVII. [1777]

Notes:

With an index.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Goldsmiths', 11626

English Short Title Catalog, T149863.

OCLC:

642456079