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Lindon v. First National Bank is one of the earliest precedent-setting US federal court cases involving common law name change. [39] 1883. Washington Territory: Women are granted jury service rights. [40] [41] 1887. Washington Territory: Women's jury service rights are rescinded due to a change in the territory's Supreme Court. [40] [41]
An update was published in 2004 by the GAO covering the period between September 21, 1996 (when DOMA was signed into law), and December 31, 2003. The update identified 120 new statutory provisions involving marital status, and 31 statutory provisions involving marital status repealed or amended in such a way as to eliminate marital status as a ...
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It allowed married women to own and sell real and personal property, control their earnings, to sue and to make wills. [21] Other legislation enacted that year made divorce and remarriage easier, provided protections for divorced women, and removed the five-year waiting period before a wife could file for divorce on the grounds of desertion. [22]
Yazell, "This rule [coverture] has worked out in reality to mean that though the husband and wife are one, the one is the husband." [3] A married woman could not own property, sign legal documents or enter into a contract, obtain an education against her husband's wishes, or keep a salary for herself. If a wife was permitted to work, under the ...
Once a woman became married, she had no claim to her property, as her husband had full control and could do whatever suited him regarding the property: "Thus, a woman, on marrying, relinquished her personal property—moveable property such as money, stocks, furniture, and livestock—to her husband's ownership; by law he was permitted to ...
In many legal systems, the husband had complete power over the family; for example, in Franco's Spain, although women's role was defined as that of a homemaker who had to largely avoid the public sphere in order to take care of the children, the legal rights over the children belonged to the father; until 1970 the husband could give a family's ...
Deriving from the legal fiction that a husband and wife are one person, it extends the defendant's protection against self-incrimination to his wife also. [8] At common law, accordingly, prior to 1853 the wife of a party in a case was not competent to give evidence for or against him (so could not do so even voluntarily).