Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Lists of maps and figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Notes on the text
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Women, legal rights and law courts
- 3 Female litigants and the culture of litigation
- 4 The Court of Requests
- 5 Unmarried women and widows
- 6 Married women in Requests
- 7 Freebench, custom and equity
- 8 Pleading strategies in Requests
- 9 Women waging law
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Lists of maps and figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Notes on the text
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Women, legal rights and law courts
- 3 Female litigants and the culture of litigation
- 4 The Court of Requests
- 5 Unmarried women and widows
- 6 Married women in Requests
- 7 Freebench, custom and equity
- 8 Pleading strategies in Requests
- 9 Women waging law
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
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- Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998