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Courted and Abandoned : Seduction in Canadian Law.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History SeriesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (274 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442620810
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Courted and AbandonedDDC classification:
  • 345.71/0253
LOC classification:
  • KE8928 .B763 2002
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- 1 Fiction of the Law -- 2 The Market of Shame -- 3 Women of Quality and Lewd Mothers -- 4 Feudalism Triumphant -- 5 Rewarding the Insinuating Arts -- 6 Virtue by Statute -- 7 An Action of Their Own -- 8 Wife Seduction: Punishing the 'Gay Lothario' -- 9 To Protect the Poor Unfortunate Child -- 10 MacMillan v. Brownlee -- 11 Death of a Tort -- 12 The Complex Dance of Seduction -- EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX B -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: Patrick Brode examines the history of the 'heartbalm' torts in nineteenth-century Canada - breaches of duty leading to liability for damages for seduction, breach of promise of marriage, and criminal conversation.
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Cover -- Contents -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- 1 Fiction of the Law -- 2 The Market of Shame -- 3 Women of Quality and Lewd Mothers -- 4 Feudalism Triumphant -- 5 Rewarding the Insinuating Arts -- 6 Virtue by Statute -- 7 An Action of Their Own -- 8 Wife Seduction: Punishing the 'Gay Lothario' -- 9 To Protect the Poor Unfortunate Child -- 10 MacMillan v. Brownlee -- 11 Death of a Tort -- 12 The Complex Dance of Seduction -- EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX B -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Patrick Brode examines the history of the 'heartbalm' torts in nineteenth-century Canada - breaches of duty leading to liability for damages for seduction, breach of promise of marriage, and criminal conversation.

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