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Exploring a century and a half of marriage through stories of struggle and conflict mined from case records, Hartog shatters the myth of a golden age of stable marriage. He describes the myriad ways the law shaped and defined marital relations and spousal identities, and how individuals manipulated and reshaped the rules of the American states to fit their needs. We witness a compelling cast of characters: wives who attempted to leave abusive husbands, women who manipulated their marital status for personal advantage, accidental and intentional bigamists, men who killed their wives' lovers, couples who insisted on divorce in a legal culture that denied them that right. [publisher's description]
394 <73> --- Husband and wife --- -Marriage --- -Separation (Law) --- -Divorce a mensa et thoro --- Divorce from bed and board --- Judicial separation --- Marital separation --- Divorce --- Marriage law --- Matrimonial actions --- Married life --- Matrimony --- Nuptiality --- Wedlock --- Love --- Sacraments --- Betrothal --- Courtship --- Families --- Home --- Honeymoons --- Man and wife --- Matrimonial regime --- Spouses --- Wife and husband --- Domestic relations --- Women --- Desertion and non-support --- Married women --- Ritueel. Openbaar leven. Maatschappelijk leven. Banketten. Volksfeesten. Carnaval. Spelen. Dansen. Optochten. Jaarmarkt. Kermissen. Ruiterfeesten.--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- History --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- -Ritueel. Openbaar leven. Maatschappelijk leven. Banketten. Volksfeesten. Carnaval. Spelen. Dansen. Optochten. Jaarmarkt. Kermissen. Ruiterfeesten.--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 394 <73> Ritueel. Openbaar leven. Maatschappelijk leven. Banketten. Volksfeesten. Carnaval. Spelen. Dansen. Optochten. Jaarmarkt. Kermissen. Ruiterfeesten.--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Marriage --- Separation (Law) --- Divorce a mensa et thoro --- United States
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We all hope that we will be cared for as we age. But the details of that care, for caretaker and recipient alike, raise some of life's most vexing questions. From the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, as an explosive economy and shifting social opportunities drew the young away from home, the elderly used promises of inheritance to keep children at their side. Hendrik Hartog tells the riveting, heartbreaking stories of how families fought over the work of care and its compensation.Someday All This Will Be Yours narrates the legal and emotional strategies mobilized by older people, and explores the ambivalences of family members as they struggled with expectations of love and duty. Court cases offer an extraordinary glimpse of the mundane, painful, and intimate predicaments of family life. They reveal what it meant to be old without the pensions, Social Security, and nursing homes that now do much of the work of serving the elderly. From demented grandparents to fickle fathers, from litigious sons to grateful daughters, Hartog guides us into a world of disputed promises and broken hearts, and helps us feel the terrible tangle of love and commitments and money.From one of the bedrocks of the human condition-the tension between the infirmities of the elderly and the longings of the young-emerges a pioneering work of exploration into the darker recesses of family life. Ultimately, Hartog forces us to reflect on what we owe and are owed as members of a family.
Inheritance and succession --- Older people --- Aged --- Aging people --- Elderly people --- Old people --- Older adults --- Older persons --- Senior citizens --- Seniors (Older people) --- Age groups --- Persons --- Gerontocracy --- Gerontology --- Old age --- Bequests --- Descent and distribution --- Descents --- Hereditary succession --- Intestacy --- Intestate succession --- Law of succession --- Succession, Intestate --- Real property --- Universal succession --- Trusts and trustees --- History. --- Care --- Law and legislation
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"Hendrik Hartog uses a forgotten 1840 case to explore the regime of gradual emancipation that took place in New Jersey over the first half of the nineteenth century. In Minna's case, white people fought over who would pay for the costs of caring for a dependent, apparently enslaved, woman. Hartog marks how the peculiar language mobilized by the debate -- about care as a "mere voluntary courtesy" -- became routine in a wide range of subsequent cases about "good Samaritans." Using Minna's case as a springboard, Hartog explores the statutes, situations, and conflicts that helped produce a regime where slavery was usually but not always legal and where a supposedly enslaved person may or may not have been legally free"--
African Americans --- Liability (Law) --- Slaves --- Slavery --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Accountability --- Legal responsibility --- Responsibility, Legal --- Responsibility (Law) --- Civil law --- Contracts --- Obligations (Law) --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- History. --- Social conditions --- Law and legislation --- Black people --- Social conditions.
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History of the law --- anno 1700-1799 --- United States of America
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