La incidencia del Derecho Patrimonial en la (in)capacidad jurídica de la mujer casada en Inglaterra: el largo camino desde la Edad Media hasta las reformas del siglo xx

Abstract

For centuries in England, the legal status of married women was determined by a medieval rule that deprived her of legal capacity and left her in a legal limbo where she could only exercise rights and obligations through her husband. The obliteration of married women from the sphere of Private Law had many consequences, but depriving her of property rights was possibly the biggest one. As we will see, the history of the legal capacity of married women in England is the history of the recognition - or deprivation - of their right to property.