Probate Confiscation: Unjust Laws Which Govern Woman

Reprint of the fourth revised and enlarged edition, originally published in 1876. Printed for the author and sold on her lecture tours throughout the United States in an effort to enlighten citizens of those states and demand repeal of probate laws in each state. A fascinating source for scholars of women's history and legal history alike, the volume is a passionate and insightful first-hand account of the legal system as it was experienced by women in the United States in the latter quarter of the nineteenth-century, as well as a well-informed feminist legal tract calling for economic justice and property rights for women and widows and their children.J. W. Stow is the author of 'Probate Confiscation: Unjust Laws Which Govern Woman' with ISBN 9781584773405 and ISBN 1584773405.