Legal Thesis on Women and Marriage in Roman and French Law.
1847 French Legal Thesis on Women and Marriage [Manuscript]. [Dossat, Jacques-Jean-Baptiste Alphonse (b.1823)]. [Legal Thesis on Women and Marriage in Roman and French Law]. [Grenoble?], 1847. 202 pp. Quarto (10" x 7-3/4"). Contemporary quarter morocco over pebbled cloth, raised bands, gilt ornaments and gilt title (Condition des Femmes) to spine, marbled endpapers. Light rubbing and a few nicks to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, corners bumped and somewhat worn, owner bookplate (of Dossat) to front pastedown, a bit of glue transfer from edges of bookplate to front free endpaper. Light toning to interior, content in handsome, mostly correction-free hand to rectos and versos of numbered leaves. $1,950. * This is a personal copy of a law-degree thesis on woman and marriage according to Roman law and the laws of pre-revolutionary and contemporary France. Its author, Dossat, was born and probably educated in Grenoble. He had a successful legal career, first as a lawyer in Bordeaux and later as a judge in Annecy. He appeared to have a deep interest in the legal status of women. In 1872, he delivered an address at the opening session of the Bordeaux Court of Appeals titled De l'Emancipation de la Femme, which was published (Bordeaux: G. Gounnouihou, 1872).
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