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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Autore principale: Fuchs, Rachel G.
Natura: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lingua:Anglais
Pubblicazione: Crime, Histoire & Sociétés 2012
Accesso online:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM

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