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Women's Bodies, Women's Property

German Customary Law Books Illustrated in the Fourteenth Century
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    • Group I: Women denied right to advocate or plead in court
    • Group II: Distribution of widow's inheritance
    • Group III: Men's crime, women's punishment illustrated
    • Group IV: Limitations on inheritance rights of unmarried daughters
    • Group V: Fornicating woman keeps her rights
    • Group VI: Woman's life estate--but with limitations
    • Group VII: Morning Gift, gerade, musteil, and Inheritance
    • Group VIII: Widow loses husband's weapons and military equipment
    • Group IX: Woman's limited rights to alienate or bequeath property
    • Group X: Outlaws
    • Group XI: Life estate--the law giveth and the law taketh away
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