A Handbook for Women Engaged in Social and Political WorkHelen Blackburn J.W. Arrowsmith, 1895 - 116 pages |
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A Handbook for Women Engaged in Social and Political Work (1881) Helen Blackburn No preview available - 2008 |
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Page 75 - Every woman, whether married before or after this Act, shall have in her own name against all persons whomsoever, including her husband, the same civil remedies, and also (subject, as regards her husband, to the proviso hereinafter contained) the same remedies and redress by way of criminal proceedings, for the protection and security of her own separate property, as if such property belonged to her as a feme sole...
Page 79 - ... infant, and the right of access thereto of either parent, having regard to the welfare of the infant and the conduct of the parents, and to the wishes as well of the mother as of the father...
Page 86 - ... wherein, or within the close or curtilage or precincts of which steam, water, or other mechanical power is used in aid of the manufacturing process carried on there.
Page 81 - ... incestuous adultery, or of bigamy with adultery, or of rape, or of sodomy or bestiality, or of adultery coupled with such cruelty as without adultery would have entitled her to a divorce a mensa et thoro, or of adultery coupled with desertion, without reasonable excuse, for two years or upwards...
Page 85 - ... hours, in any one week, in addition to such overtime as may be allowed in the case of women.
Page 85 - A child or young person or woman shall not be employed continuously for more than five hours without an interval of at least half an hour for a meal...
Page 81 - ... and apart from him, may apply to any court of summary jurisdiction acting within the city, borough, petty sessional or other division or district, in which any such conviction has taken place, or in which the cause of complaint shall have wholly or partially arisen, for an order or orders under this Act...
Page 81 - An Act to amend the Law relating to Divorce and Matrimonial Causes in England.
Page 84 - If any occupier of a factory or workshop or laundry or of any place from which any work is given out, or any contractor employed by any such occupier, causes or allows wearing apparel to be made, cleaned, or repaired in any dwelling-house or building occupied therewith, whilst any inmate of the dwelling-house is suffering from scarlet fever or small-pox, then, unless he proves that he was not aware of the existence of the illness in the dwellinghouse, and could not reasonably have been expected to...
Page 81 - ... imprisonment exceeding two months, or whose husband shall have deserted her, or whose husband shall have been guilty of persistent cruelty to her, or wilful neglect to provide reasonable maintenance for her or her infant children whom he is legally liable to maintain...