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Matrilineality is the tracing of kinship through the female line. It may also correlate with a social system in which each person is identified with their matriline, their mother's lineage, and which can involve the inheritance of property and titles.
The ecclesiastical law says again that no son is to have the patrimony but the eldest born to the father by the married wife. The law of Howel, however, adjudges it to the younger son as well as to the oldest, and decides that the sin of the father, or his illegal act, is not to be brought against the son as to lus patrimony.
In 1807, the year before The Woman of Colour was published, the British Slave Trade Act outlawed the buying and selling of slaves within the British Empire. All currently-enslaved people remained enslaved, but a fine of £100 was imposed for every slave found being transported by a British ship for sale.
Matrimonial regimes, or marital property systems, are systems of property ownership between spouses providing for the creation or absence of a marital estate and if created, what properties are included in that estate, how and by whom it is managed, and how it will be divided and inherited at the end of the marriage.
Patrimony, or property, the total of all personal and real entitlements, including movable and immovable property, belonging to a real person or a juristic person Patrimony, or inheritance , a right or estate inherited from one's father, or other ancestor though the male line
She has since recruited seven other women of color to serve as directors. In total, they have helped more than 200 women, including queer women, over the past three years. The demand hasn't waned.
The contrasts almost write themselves. Younger woman of color vs. older white man. Middle class vs. silver spoon. Immigrant family vs. family separation.
Marriage in the Catholic Church, also known as holy matrimony, is the "covenant by which a man and woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring", and which "has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament between the baptized". [1]