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    THE LAWS RELATING TO THEM. 51

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    We shall compare with the general type of the legislation which obtains among the French-speaking populations—a type which

    , we find in force at Geneva , —the modifications which this legislation has received tinder the influence of old Romanic customs ; so

    that by studying the legal position of women in Western Switzerland onl what y , we it was shall there learn before what it the is in general France , recasting and even , of in the many provincial respects ,

    customs into one single code . We shall consider women firstas daughtersunder the paternal

    , , roof , * then , as single women , having homes of their own , and in relation to society ; finallyas wives and mothersin the conjugal

    relation . , , Everywhere , under the modern French law , the daughters enjoy

    the same rights under the paternal roof as the male children . All occupy the same position , without any distinction of sex or

    primogeniture . All alike are up to the time of their majority under the authority of their parentsand are under the same obligations

    to-, wards them . They can claim aliment , shelter , guardianship , education . Until their majority the paternal home is their legal

    domicile . After this period they can , if they choose , have a separate domicile , and provide for their own wants by independent

    labour . But they cannot claim from the parents a dotation or separate establishment , either by marriage or otherwise . The law

    neglects to state ( doubtless as an unnecessary provision ) whether ¦ parents have the right , after the majority of their children , to force

    them to leave their domicile , or even to oblige them to work . The extent of correction which they have over them extends only to the time of their legal majority . This right is limited

    to placing a rebellious child in a house of detention . Up to sixteen the French code authorizes arrest on an order given

    ¦ by the president of the tribunal of the district , at the verbal request of the father . In this case the detention cannot last more than a

    month . After sixteen , and up to the majority or emancipation , the 'detention may be for six monthsand the order must emanate from

    the procureur of the cour cVassises , after he has taken counsel thereupon with the president of the _, tribunal . It is remarkable that

    parents very seldom make use of this right , especially in the case of daughterseven when these have offended against legal morals .

    , ¦ In At the Neuuhiitel Valaisthe , the detention code does can not never mention exceed any two similar months provision and can .

    only take place , upon the vote ( _prSavis" ) of a pupillary , chamber _{ chambre _ptipillazre ) which plays an important part in the local

    jurisdiction . The Fribourg code is more explicit . The father , it says , directs the education of his child , and guides him in the

    ' Choice of a business . The father , continues the code , can employ his child in dQmestic laboursor in his business and profession .

    The father may himself correct , his child , or cause him to

    _* be corrected , with . moderation . The local authority e 2 checks

    The Laws Relating To Them. 51

    THE LAWS _RELATING TO THEM . 51

• Citation
  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 51, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/51/