Test 1 Terms Flashcards
Immovable property
o Things you can literally not move
• Property inherited inside the city (because it’s the family honor that is publicly displayed)
• Ex. A house, buildings, land, forts
• For sons
Patrician
- Women’s laws to property were implicit and natural
- Man’s right to property is implicit, it was natural
- Women were not born with the natural right to inherit
Margaret Fell
Quakerism
Wrote about women’s rights from Bible
Was imprisoned for it
Katherine Von Bord
Married to Lutheran founder
Raised children, took care of farm, financial matters
Still didn’t get credit
Annulment
Cancels marriage
equals divorce in Catholicism
Voided if consanguinity, affinity, or impotence
King Henry story
Interstate inheritance
dies w/o will leads to hearing
claim guardianship
Roman law: responsible to self only
Senatus Consultum Velleianum
can’t defend dowry (under husband’s)
Banned doing business on behalf of someone
Can’t be guarantors
Substitute for late husbands in court (sometimes)
Council of Trent
Major reform
sacraments, interpretation of scriptures, church dogma, duties of clergy
seven sacraments include marriage
Germania
owned assets together
each spouse gets half automatically
survivor: gets half or all if heirs
More autonomy!
Primogeniture
First born male (Liberia)
First born male or female (Basque country)
Rabbinic Law
Women banned from public affairs
Can’t appear in public (otherwise excommunication)
Scarcity of men
Opened opportunities for women
because of famine, plague, wars
Christine de Pizan
Unsuccessful lawsuits to recover investments
kept ignorant: can’t understand husband’s financial affairs
Wrote about women’s contributions - advised women to be practical in estates
Salic Law
by men in power, women could not inherit the French Crown, nor a child of a woman (son is minor, mom can’t inherit the crown)
