Spence defines the meaning of property in seventeen century China. Women like any other piece of property belonged to their husbands. ... Because of the Legal Code in the county, widows alone had a little chance to inherit a deceased husband's property. ... The law would have allowed the tree brothers to inherit the property if woman P'eng had remarried, or if there was no son to receive the property. ... After a year had passed, he still had not paid his debt, so the creditors came, and collected his wife (p. 82). ...

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This meant that only relatives on the father's side of the family were important for emotional ties or for transfer of property of wealth. ... He had total authority over every member of the household and owned all the property of the family. ... It also took over property left by members who died without any heirs. ... It even passed resolution which were binding on it's members. ... Sons were especially desired in order to continue the family line, its religious ritual, and its property. ...

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Women during the Elizabethan era were not allowed to have any possessions and were usually passed on to their husband or any other male in their lives. "When it came to property, a woman gave up all of her rights to own land and such things to her husband. ... "Come, go with me: I will go seek the king./ This is the very ecstasy of love,/ Whose violent property fordoes itself/ And leads the will to desperate undertakings/ As oft as any passion under heaven/ That does afflict our natures," (2.1.101-106) as mentioned by Polonius. ...

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The legal precedents and laws in these states specifically support what many consider to be the "pros" or advantages of gay marriage, and these include the legal right to have children, jointing owning property or splitting it up, inheritance and death taxes, transfer taxes, government benefits, immigration, and the ability to define wills and testaments for each other as primary beneficiaries. ... Second, there is the right to have community property in the states that support gay marriage, including the protection of rights specifically defining joint ownership and dissolution...

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Women were thought of as property and when they would leave their home, had to be escorted. ... She would then pass on her father's inheritance to her spouse. ... Almost like a piece of property that King Hrothgar owns. ... They were still no thought of as equal, but no longer looked at as a liability or property for someone to own. ...

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However they did acquire a dowry at birth that was passed on to the husband that the father had chosen for his daughter. ... Before the age of eighteen, Spartan women had to compete in to pass a physical test which granted her citizenship and eligibility to marry. ... Whereas Athenian women viewed as property of their husband that could be discarded at the man's discretion. ...

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Morgan, Edmund Sears. The Puritan family; religion & domestic relations in seventeenth-century New England. New York: Harper & Row, [1966] The Puritan family Edmund S. Morgan gives a comprehensive understanding of the Puritan Faith in his book, The Puritan Family. He shows how the Purit...

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Men of Renaissance Florence and centuries after that wanted children to pass things onto after death and to have a woman that could not do this was disgraceful., ...he must have two reasons for marrying: the first is to perpetuate himself with children, the second is to have a faithful and steadfast companion. ... He should, however, follow an example of a good family-head, who, when buying something, insists on examining the property many times before signing any contract. (Alberti 1), That text from the 15th century legitimately states that women were property, like cattle, so developing fee...

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They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life." ... Since money is so important, Wickham tries to elope with Georgiana Darcy only because of her fortune of £30,000 since the property of a woman automatically becomes the property of the husband in the marriage. ...

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Bingley inherited property to the amount of nearly an hundred thousand pounds from his father, who had intended to purchase an estate, but did not live to it. ... They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass you life." ... Since money is so important, Wickham tries to elope with Georgiana Darcy only because of her fortune of 10,000 since the property of a woman automatically becomes the property of the husband in the marriage. ... A blunt rest...

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If passed, this will be the only amendment, other than prohibition, which was later revoked, to take away American rights. ... The fourteenth amendment guarantees life, liberty, and property to all people. ...

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Jonathan Dollimore argues that Edmund " . . . is made to serve an existing system of values; although he falls prey to . . . his obsession with power, property and inheritance- (79). ... He further states that the noble could bequeath land to illegitimate children, but that the monarch in any given circumstance might invalidate the request and dole out the properties to friends and relatives in an act of nepotism, leaving the intended heir with nothing (49). ... With the set of characters that are doing the decision-making in the play, it is no wonder that Edmund did not wish to trust hi...

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The abuse is pass down from one generation to the next. ... His real name is Alfred but we never know what his last name is until the end because the author doesn't want to classify the women as property of a man. ... Do we know how to appreciate life or are we just letting life pass us by? ...

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Women were believed to transfer traits of character and intelligence along to their children; in the nobility, women passed on the family status along with ownership of certain land and slaves. ... • Women simply leave the household if a divorce is granted; children and property all stay with the husband. ...

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During the Zhou dynasty (1100-770 BC) women were stripped of their right to own personal property. ... Women could not claim family property. The property went to the older brother of the wife or her oldest son. ...

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Life in Traditional India Imagine a place where a caste system rules the life of its people, where no matter how hard one works the caste one is in decides their life and where cow dung is considered a magical healer. That place is India. Within a country so far from the modern world, people live strictly by religion and tradition, by following their castes. It is that, that keeps them strong and has helped them survived for hundreds of years. Originally, there were four castes. ...

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Women's property became her husband's when she finally married. ... Further evidence of her indecorous conduct during the absence of her older sisters is revealed in her description of a "piece of fun- recently enjoyed at colonel Forster's: We dressed up Chamberlayne in woman's clothes, on purpose to pass for a lady, only think what fun When Denny, and Wickham, and Pratt, and two or three more of the men came in, they did not know him in the least. ...

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When a woman married, her wealth passed to her husband. ... For example, upon her return from the beach, Leonce berates her for staying out in the sun to long and looks at her "as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage" (Chopin 266). ...

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"Linden Hills", by Gloria Naylor successfully creates a chilling argument against oppressive patriarchal societies and families. She vividly exposes the implications of what can happen to a society when cultural traits, morality and close family and neighborhood ties take a backseat to the attainmen...

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Preface Marriage and families founded through marriage constitute the basic cells of the society. It involves a multi-layer relationship between neighbors and other elements in the community, and it is so regarded by the Chinese as the top issue of the morality of human kind. Wedding ceremony is the ritual conducted when the couple decides to establish a marital relationship and through which they can win over the approval, recognition and protection of the community. The procedure of the wedding ceremony actually reflects the various social and cultural notions. The wedding customs in anci...

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