Magistrates and Mothers, Paternity and Property in Nineteenth-Century French Courts
In 1804, French Civil Code forbad paternity searches (recherche de paternité). Despite this prohibition of paternity suits, enterprising, or desperate mothers with the help of magistrates found ways around the law, and used tort law to sue seducers and putative fathers for damages in the civil court...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2012
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |