right to sue and be sued, 2. right to her own earnings, 3.
right to own real and personal property, 4. right to make
contracts 5. right to stay in family homestead with children,
right to custody of children if husband abandons her), divorce in
England by courts in 1857, in United States extension of grounds
for divorce beyond adultery, bigamy, and desertion to cruel
treatment, habitual drunkenness, and conviction of a felony and
finally no-fault divorce, decline of father's paramount claim to
the custody of his minor children in the absence of a strong
showing of misconduct or unfitness, tender years doctrine (in
England in 1839 mother to have custody of child under seven and to
have access over seven) and then best interests of child doctrine
in custody disputes, legal obligation for parents to support their
minor children, adoption about the 1850s; in England allowance of
women attorneys in 1922, women to vote in 1928, adultery by a
husband to be adjudged as culpable as adultery by a wife in 1923,
the rights of a mother over her child to be equal to those of a
father in 1924, and the rights of a woman to property to be the
same as those of a man in 1926; child labor laws, full religious
freedom with admission of nonconformists to the two universities
in England in 1871, probable cause instead of suspicion for search
and seizure, mandamus, rule against perpetuities, mandatory
secondary education, kidnapping, false impersonation, liens,
obscenity, estoppel for detrimental reliance on a promise, unjust
enrichment, pensions, trademarks and unfair competition,
antitrust, privacy, freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom
of the press, bankruptcy, civil rights, union organizing laws,
laws on discrimination due to race, sex, ethnic or national
origin, disability, age, and sexual preference; sexual harassment
and stalking laws, product liability, international law,
environmental laws protecting air and water quality, workers
compensation, unemployment compensation, controlled substances,
intellectual property law; and contingency fees only in the United
States,
In England, there was an end of trial by combat in 1819, of
compurgation in 1833, and of benefit of clergy.
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