Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword. The Osgoode society for canadian legal history / McMurtry, R. Roy / Oliver, Peter N. -- Preface -- 1.Fiction of the law -- 2. The Market of Shame -- 3. Women of Quality and Lewd Mothers -- 4. Feudalism Triumphant -- 5. Rewarding the Insinuating Arts -- 6. Virtue by Statute -- 7. An Action of Their Own -- 8. Wife Seduction: Punishing the 'Gay Lothario' -- 9. To Protect the Poor Unfortunate Child -- 10. MacMillan v. Brownlee -- 11. Death of a Tort -- 12. The Complex Dance of Seduction -- Epilogue -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Notes -- Index
Summary
Patrick Brode examines the history of the 'heartbalm' torts in nineteenth-century Canada - breaches of duty leading to liability for damages for seduction, breach of promise of marriage, and criminal conversation
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 7, 2016)
