In Tender Consideration: Women, Families, And the Law in Abraham Lincoln's Illinois - Couverture souple

 
9780252073397: In Tender Consideration: Women, Families, And the Law in Abraham Lincoln's Illinois
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ISBN 10 : 0252073398 ISBN 13 : 9780252073397
Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2006

Synopsis

From debt to divorce, from adultery to slander, cases with women as plaintiffs, defendants, or both appeared regularly on docket books in antebellum Illinois. Nearly one-fifth of Abraham Lincoln's cases involved women as litigants, and during the twenty-five years of his legal career thousands of women appeared in Illinois courts, as litigants, criminal defendants, witnesses, and spectators.

Drawing on the rich resources of The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, a DVD version of Lincoln's complete legal papers, In Tender Consideration scans the full range of family woes that antebellum Americans took to the law. Deserted wives, destitute widows, jilted brides with illegitimate children, and slandered women brought their cases before the courts, often receiving a surprising degree of sympathy and support.

Through the stories of dozens of individuals who took legal action to obtain a divorce, contest a will, prosecute a rapist, or assert rights to family property, this volume illuminates the legal status of women and children in Illinois and their experiences with the law in action. Contributors document how the courts viewed children and how they responded to inheritance, custody, and other types of cases involving children or their interests. These cases also highlight Lincoln's life in law, placing him more clearly within the context of the legal culture in which he lived and raising intriguing questions about the influence of his legal life on his subsequent political one.

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À propos de l?auteur

Daniel W. Stowell, the director of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln project, is the author of Rebuilding Zion: The Religious Reconstruction of the South, 1863-1877.

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Éditeur
University of Illinois Press
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0252073398
ISBN 13 
9780252073397
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Éditeur
Stowell Daniel W.
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Personne responsable
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9780252027024: In Tender Consideration: Women, Families, and the Law in Abraham Lincoln's Illinois

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ISBN 10 :  0252027027 ISBN 13 :  9780252027024
Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2002
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