Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights: or, The Lawes Provision for Woemen

Title

Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights: or, The Lawes Provision for Woemen

Date

1632

Subject

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

Type

text

Language

English

Place of Issue

London (England)

Genre

Statutes and codes

Location

Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

Call number

2

HQ1297 .L41

Exhibition link

Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement

Label text

The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights: or, The Lawes Provision for Woemen (London, 1632). New York State followed English common law in regard to the right of women to retain their property after marriage. This 1632 compilation of laws regarding women states:<br>

<i>Whatsoever the Husband had before Coverture either in goods or lands, it is absolutely his owne, the wife hath therein no seisin at all…<br><br>

For thus it is, if before Marriage the Woman were possessed of Horses, Neate, Sheepe, Cowe, Wool, Money, Plate and Jewels, all manner of moveable substance is presently by coniunation the husbands, to sell, keepe, or bequeath if he die: And though he bequeath them not, yet are they the Husbands Executors and not the wives which brought them to her Husband.</i>

Collection

Rare Book Collection (UR-RBSCP)

Citation

“Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights: or, The Lawes Provision for Woemen,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed March 12, 2025, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/517.

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