How did the judicial status of women differ in Quebec at the beginning of the 20th century?
“There is no evidence that people were critical of the clauses that reaffirmed the subordinate status of women [in the Civil Code of 1866]. One explanation for the silence may be that, until the end of the nineteenth century, women in Quebec enjoyed more rights than their counterparts in Canada’s other provinces, which were governed by Common Law. Under Common Law, a wife had no legal existence separate from her husband; at the time of marriage, the man obtained absolute control of the woman’s person and assets. “In the middle of the nineteenth century, women subject to Common Law exerted pressure to change the law. Toward the end of the century, the law was amended several times with the passage of the Married Women’s Property Acts. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the only marriage régime in most of the Canadian provinces was that of separation of property […]. The situation had reversed itself: it was the women of Quebec who had the least enviable legal status. Anglophone
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