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A 8 page paper which examines how the status of women has evolved over the past 200 years and considered within the context of the present system. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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implied by legal personality - a legally recognized entity that is entitled to receive all of the privileges which the law allows - women in the Canadian legal system have
always been status-bound to their male counterparts. As defined within Sir George Whitecross Patons Textbook of Jurisprudence, "Legal personality... refers to the particular device by which the law creates
or recognizes units to which it ascribes certain powers and capacities" (Quoted in Dawson). A legal personality can be either a human being or artificial corporate body that can
freely enter into legal relationships (Dawson). But to put exactly where women factored into the legal equation into perspective, sociologist Roger Cotterrell explains, "For example, children, slaves, mentally disordered
individuals, prisoners or married women may be partially or wholly, invisible to the law in particular societies and eras; not recognized as persons at all, or treated as possessing only
limited legal capacities to contract, to own property, or to bring legal actions" (Quoted in Dawson).
From the earliest frontier times, the term legal person was synonymous with men, which naturally excluded women (Dawson). This reflected their exclusion from society, because since they were
not accorded legal personalities, this meant "women were not included in the term persons meant in practice that women were barred or prevented from equal participation with men in public
life" (Dawson). They simply did not exist in any legal way status wise. Eighteenth-century jurist Sir William Blackstone stated it bluntly when he observed in his Commentaries on
the Laws of England, "By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law; that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage,
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