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37. oldal - These are the chief legal effects of marriage during the coverture; upon which we may observe, that even the disabilities which the wife lies under, are for the most part intended for her protection and benefit. So great a favourite is the female sex of the laws of England.
289. oldal - For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
4. oldal - There is the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty. The power of conduct is the greatest of all.
320. oldal - ... at nightfall without proper guardianship and the age or apparent age of boys and girls respectively under which they shall be required to be in their homes at the hour appointed and such municipal council shall in each case cause a bell or bells to be rung at or near the time appointed as a warning to be called a "curfew bell...
241. oldal - Council shall thereby render itself liable to be interfered with in respect to its complete organic unity, independence or methods of work, or be committed to any principle or method of any other society, or to any act or utterance of the Council itself beyond compliance with the terms of this Constitution.
242. oldal - Columbia. (5) It has brought about very desirable changes in the arrangements for women prisoners in various places, notably in the city of Quebec, where matrons are now in charge of the women, and young girls are sent to a separate institution.
319. oldal - Children's aid society" means a society, having among its objects the protection of children from cruelty and the care and control of neglected children, and which has been incorporated under The Children's Protection Act...
241. oldal - We, women of the United States, sincerely believing that the best good of our homes and nation will be advanced by our own greater unity of thought, sympathy and purpose, and that an organized movement of women will best conserve the highest good of the family and the State, do hereby band ourselves together in a confederation of workers committed to the overthrow of all forms of ignorance and injustice, and to the application of the Golden Rule to society, custom and law.
320. oldal - ... in case of twins more than two infants, under the age of one year for the purpose of nursing or maintaining such infants apart from their parents for a longer period than twenty-four hours, except in a house which has been registered as herein provided.
39. oldal - ... any wages, earnings, money, and property gained or acquired by her in any employment, trade, or occupation, in which she is engaged, or which she carries on separately from her husband, or by the exercise of any literary, artistic, or scientific skill.

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