TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brode,Patrick
TI  - Courted and Abandoned: Seduction in Canadian Law
T2  - Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Series
SN  - 9781442620810
AV  - KE8928 .B763 2002 
U1  - 345.71/0253 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Seduction-Canada-History-19th century
KW  - Sex and law-Canada-History-19th century
KW  - Sexual ethics-Canada-History-19th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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