His, Hers, and Theirs: Domestic Relations and Marital Property Law in Texas to 1850
Description:
Texas law regarding the legal status of women and their property rights developed from the mingling of Spanish and English laws. Spanish laws regarding the protection of women's rights developed during the centuries-long Reconquest, when the Spanish Christians slowly took back the Iberian Peninsula from the Moorish conquerors. Women were of special importance to the expansion of Spanish civilization. Later, when Spain conquered and colonized the New World, these rights for women came, too.
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Date:
May 2000
Creator:
Stuntz, Jean A.