Married Women and the Law of Property in Victorian Ontario

Chambers, Lori

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“…The declining proportion of male decedents over time reflects greater property ownership by women in the wake of legal changes in the nineteenth century. The Married Women's Real Estate Act (1873) allowed married women to dispose of real estate as if unmarried, while the Married Woman's Property Act (1884) enabled women to dispose of any real or personal property as if unmarried (see Chambers 1997;Baskerville 1999;Ingram and Inwood 2000). Figure 1 paints a picture of the regional distribution of probated decedents according to religious affiliation, while figure 2 illustrates the distribution of birthplace across religions.…”

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The Effect of Religious Denomination on Wealth: Who Were the Truly Blessed?

Matteo¹

2007

Social Science History

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The wealth of probated decedents from late-nineteenth-century and early-twentiethcentury Ontario is analyzed for evidence of the impact of religious affiliation on the level of wealth and rate of wealth accumulation. After controlling for age, birthplace, occupation, gender, urbanization, and other factors, the results suggest that relative to Anglicans, the wealth of Methodists and Roman Catholics was significantly lower. Moreover, when religious denomination and birthplace are interacted, Canadianborn Anglicans emerge as the dominant wealth group, while the English-born of any denomination and Methodists of any birthplace seem to fare the worst. When wealthage profiles are examined by denomination, Baptists have the steepest profiles, followed by Anglicans and Presbyterians. The data do support the hypothesis that religious affiliation, particularly when interacted with birthplace, has an impact on wealth, though the exact nature of the mechanism is unclear.Wealth maketh many friends. (Proverbs 19:4) He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. (Proverbs 28:20) The economic effect of religion is of substantial interest in economic and social science research. In his seminal survey of the economics of religion, Laurence Iannaccone (1998) classifies work on the economics of religion into three areas: the analysis of religious behavior from an economic perspec-

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The Effect of Religious Denomination on Wealth: Who Were the Truly Blessed?

Matteo¹

2007

Social Science History

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“…The reforms enabled women to hold their earnings separate from their husbands and to manage and dispose of their own personal property. 59 Under the new property regime, however, 'couples used the new right of the wife to own property as a means of insulating land and chattels from seizure by legitimate creditors; some wives colluded with husbands and were active, dishonest agents in the marketplace.' 60 Husbands and wives together ignored the higher obligation to pay debts.…”

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Ideas, Interests, Institutions and the History of Canadian Bankruptcy Law, 1867–1880

Telfer¹

2010

University of Toronto Law Journal

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Michael Trebilcock's scholarship has long recognized the importance of ideas, interests, and institutions in shaping policy. Taking the same analytical approach that Michael Trebilcock and Ninette Kelley use in their ground-breaking book on the history of Canadian immigration, which focuses on economic interests, contested ideas, and institutions, this article examines the Canadian historical experience to gain an understanding of the ideas, interests, and institutions that have been influential in shaping the evolution of Canadian bankruptcy law. Specifically, the article addresses the rise of Canadian bankruptcy legislation in the early post-Confederation period and its ultimate repeal in 1880. Bankruptcy law represented both a conflict of ideas over the morality of the bankruptcy discharge and a distinct divergence of interests between local and distant creditors over the advantages and disadvantages of a pro rata distribution. Institutional factors such as federalism, courts, and the emerging regulatory state also had an independent effect.

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“…Even civil and political rights, though, were partial and not universally enjoyed. In Ontario, for example, the franchise was limited to white men who owned sufficient property or earned sufficient income (27), and married women's property and civil rights were restricted by coverture (28). Workers as market citizens could influence hazardous working conditions only through their legal right to bargain with their employers.…”

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Remapping Worker Citizenship in Contemporary Occupational Health and Safety Regimes

Tucker

2007

Int J Health Serv

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The article draws on the rapidly growing field of citizenship studies to map and explore the dynamics of contemporary occupational health and safety (OHS) regulation. Using two key dimensions of OHS regulation (protection and participation), the author constructs four ideal types of worker citizenship (market, public, private industrial, and public industrial citizens). Historically, workers have been written into OHS regulatory regimes in each of these ways. Most recently lawmakers have created a new species of OHS regimes, best described as mandated partial self-regulation. Its distinguishing characteristic is its flexibility, such that worker citizenship can take on any of the forms previously described, often without changing the statutory framework. Using Ontario as an example, the study finds that in the late 20th century, workers made significant strides toward public industrial citizenship and, surprisingly, even under a neoconservative government, workers successfully defended their participatory rights and saw their right to protection modestly strengthened through increased enforcement. The conditions under which this regime operates, however, constantly threaten to undermine the efficacy of worker participation rights and to weaken the enforcement effort. Some suggestions are made about using a citizenship discourse to revitalize the worker OHS movement and strengthen OHS rights.

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Married Women and the Law of Property in Victorian Ontario

Cited by 17 publications

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The Effect of Religious Denomination on Wealth: Who Were the Truly Blessed?

The Effect of Religious Denomination on Wealth: Who Were the Truly Blessed?

Ideas, Interests, Institutions and the History of Canadian Bankruptcy Law, 1867–1880

Remapping Worker Citizenship in Contemporary Occupational Health and Safety Regimes

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