Marital Conflict, Ethnicity, and Legal Hybridity in Postconquest Quebec

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Title
Marital Conflict, Ethnicity, and Legal Hybridity in Postconquest Quebec
Abstract
The authors explore the terrain of marital conflict in Quebec between 1763 and 1830, focusing on a variety of strategies employed by husbands and wives, ranging from elopement, criminal prosecution for marital violence, and separation. Based on an intensive analysis of the colonial newspapers and a large judicial archive of both criminal and civil proceedings, they seek to discern patterns of ethnic inflection among men and women using these strategies, and seek to postulate a growing legal hybridity, one that particularly affected the assumptions and practice of French customary law in the first six decades following the British conquest.
Publication
Journal of Family History
Volume
Vol. 41
Issue
no. 4
Pages
430-450
Date
October 2016
Language
en
Citation
Christie, Nancy, and Michael Gauvreau. “Marital Conflict, Ethnicity, and Legal Hybridity in Postconquest Quebec.” Journal of Family History Vol. 41, no. 4 (October 2016): 430–450.
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