Lord Thurlow
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Thurlow
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Lord Thurlow, jurist credited with securing legal protections for married women's property and for a mistreated wife's right to divorce by Act of Parliament.
Ideas of progress and improvement do not easily associate themselves with the name of Lord Thurlow, yet to Thurlow is ascribed a most ingenious and beneficial device for securing the property rights of married women, and to his energetic interposition is due the recognition in 1801 by the House of Lords, of the right of a wife when suffering from outrageous ill-usage at the hands of her husband to …
This one weak point in the defences which equity had thrown up against the attacks of the enemy was rendered unassailable by the astuteness, as it is said, of Lord Thurlow.
The Law of Intellectual Property
Counsel who argued against copyright, rebutting the orrery-maker analogy used by Wedderburn.
Thurlow, counsel, in reply, against the copyright, said:
“With regard to the observation, that the inventor of an orrery was not at all to be compared to the inventor of a book, because he was paid for his labor when he had sold one orrery;