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Legislatures And Legal Change: The Reform Of Divorce Law, Carl E. Schneider
Legislatures And Legal Change: The Reform Of Divorce Law, Carl E. Schneider
Michigan Law Review
A Review of A Silent Revolution: Routine Policy Making and the Transformation of Divorce Law in the United States by Herbert Jacob
Reexamining The Law Of Rape, Janet E. Findlater
Reexamining The Law Of Rape, Janet E. Findlater
Michigan Law Review
A Review Real Rape by Susan Estrich
Some Aspects Of Householding In The Medieval Icelandic Commonwealth, William I. Miller
Some Aspects Of Householding In The Medieval Icelandic Commonwealth, William I. Miller
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There has been much, mostly inconclusive, discussion about how to define the household in a manner suitable for comparative purposes. Certain conventional criteria are not very useful in the Icelandic context, where it appears that a person could be attached to more than one household, where the laws suggest it was possible for more than one household to be resident in the same uncompartmentalised farmhouse; and where headship might often be shared. Definitions, for example, based on co residence or on commensalism do not jibe all that well with the pastoral transhumance practised by the Icelanders. Sheep were tended and …