 | Wellington Lee Merwine - Land tenure - 1913 - 1096 pages
...laws, published in the collection of the Georgia Historical Society (vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 74), it is said: "Marriage gives no right to the husband over the property...the children and the property belonging to them." Colonel Hawkins was at one time a senator in Congress from South Carolina, in 1801, and was appointed... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1058 pages
...published in the collections of the Georgia Historical Society, (volume 3, pt. 1, p. 74,) it is said: "Marriage gives no right to the husband over the property...the children and the property belonging to them." Col. Hawkins was at one time a senator in congress from South Carolina, In 1801 he was appointed by... | |
 | American Anthropological Association - Anthropology - 1917 - 376 pages
...no avail." Elsewhere he states that marriage gives no right to the husband over the property of the wife, and when they part, she keeps the children and the property belonging to them and to her. Not infrequently they take away everything the husband owns, his hunting equipage only excepted.3 He was,... | |
 | Law - 1907 - 560 pages
...published in the collections of the Georgia Historical Society, (Vol. 3, Pt 1, p. 74) it is said : 'Marriage gives no right to the husband over the property...keeps the children and the property belonging to them' xxx Mr. Schoolcraft makes substantially the same statement as Colonel Hawkins in reference to the customs... | |
 | Law - 1907 - 564 pages
...published in the collections of the Georgia Historical Society, (Vol. 3, Pt 1, p. 74) it is said : 'Marriage gives no right to the husband over the property...keeps the children and the property belonging to them' xxx Mr. Schoolcraft makes substantially the same statement as Colonel Hawkins in reference to the customs... | |
 | Theda Perdue - History - 1979 - 230 pages
...held the title to houses and fields. The eighteenth -century naturalist William Bartram remarked that "marriage gives no right to the husband over the property...keeps the children and the property belonging to them. " But intermarriage with whites resulted in a problem with property titles. In English common law a... | |
 | Roger L. Nichols - History - 1992 - 344 pages
...belonged to her, or perhaps more accurately, to her family. According to the naturalist William Bart ram, "Marriage gives no right to the husband over the property...wife; and when they part she keeps the children and property belonging to them." The "property" that women kept included agricultural produce — corn,... | |
 | Thomas Allan Scott - History - 1995 - 288 pages
...man never marries in his own tribe. Divorce. This is at the choice of either of the parties. . . . Marriage gives no right to the husband over the property...wife; and when they part she keeps the children and property belonging to them. . . . 8 NOTES 1. All myths included in this chapter come from James Mooney,... | |
 | Karen J. Maschke - Law - 1997 - 356 pages
...belonged to her, or perhaps more accurately, to her family. According to the naturalist William Bartram, "Marriage gives no right to the husband over the property...wife; and when they part she keeps the children and property belonging to them."* The "property" that women kept included agricultural produce — coro,... | |
 | Theda Perdue - History - 1998 - 270 pages
...as that of any other individuals, they have scarcely anything in common." 37 According to Bartram, "Marriage gives no right to the husband over the property of his wife." 38 Such an arrangement gave women control over the crops they produced and a proprietary interest in... | |
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Marriage gives no right to the husband over the property of his wife, and when they part, she keeps the children, and the property belonging to them and to her. 
