Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Preface 5
3. Table of Contents 7
4. I. General Introduction 11
5. Part I. Effects of Marriage upon Legal Capacity
6. 2. General Legal Capacity of Acting 16
7. 3. General Contractual Capacity of the Married Woman 19
8. 4. Power of the Married Woman to Become Surety for Another Person 34
9. 5. Donations Between Married Parties 36
10. 6. The Married Woman as a Trader 41
11. 7. The Married Woman’s Capacity to Sue and Be Sued 43
12. 8. Right and Duty of Household Administration 46
13. Part II. Matrimonial Property Systems
14. I. Classification
15. 9. In General 49
16. 10. Communal Systems 50
17. 11. Individual Systems 51
18. II. Regulation by Marriage Agreements
19. 12. General Freedom to Contract Such Agreements 53
20. 13. Statutory and Contractual Systems 55
21. 14. Particular Provisions Respecting Marriage Contracts 60
22. III. Systems of Community of Property
23. 15. Common, Dotal and Separate Property 63
24. 16. Composition of the General Community 64
25. 17. Composition of Limited Community 67
26. 18. Products of the Personal Industry of the Wife 70
27. 19. Obligations of the Community 75
28. 20. Administration of the Common Property 81
29. 21. Administration of the Dotal and Separate Property 85
30. 22. Protection of the Wife’s Property 86
31. 23. Dissolution of the Community 87
32. 24. Effects of the Dissolution of the Community 91
33. IV. Systems of Individual Property
34. 25. In Roman and in Teutonic Law 95
35. 26. General Character of the Wife’s Property 99
36. 27. Administration of the Wife’s Property 102
37. 28. Liability for Debts 107
38. 29. Protection of the Wife’s Property 109
39. 30. Termination of the Marital Administration and Usufruct 110
40. 31. Effects of the Termination of the Marital Administion and Usufruct 112
41. 32. General Character of the Wife’s Property 114
42. 33. Administration of the Dowry 116
43. 34. Protection of the Dowry 120
44. 35. Separation of Property 121
45. 36. Restitution of the Dowry 122
46. IV. System of Separate Property
47. 37. Development of the System 124
48. 38. General Character of the Married Woman’s Property 130
49. 39. Products of the Personal Industry of the Married Woman 135
50. 40. Dower and Curtesy 137
51. 41. Homestead 141
52. 42. Administration of the Wife’s Property 142
53. 43. Support of the Family 147
54. 44. Liability for Debts 153
55. Part III. Succession of Married Parties
56. 45. General Relation to Matrimonial Property Rights 155
57. 46. Intestate Succession 158
58. 47. Legal Portion 168
59. 48. Provision for the Support of the Survivor 173
60. Appendix 178
61. Index 185