Women
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in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Adult women under guardianship, whose more limited restrictions on alienation and testamentary capacity are contrasted with wards and male minors.
The pupilage of women after attaining the age of twelve, i.
We must next observe, that neither a woman nor a ward (pupillus) can aliene a mancipable thing without their guardian’s sanction:
Thus a woman lending money without the guardian’s sanction passes the property therein to the borrower, money being a non-mancipable thing, and so imposes a contractual obligation on the borrower.
Aphorisms
Female persons discussed as a demographic group with distinct medical rules
A woman does not become ambidexterous.
A woman does not take the gout, unless her menses be stopped.
Rigors commence in women, especially at the loins, and spread by the back to the head;
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Women considered specifically as a class of potential witnesses whose testimony some wrongly reject.
Hence it appears, how frivolous is the reasoning of those, who reject the testimony of women on account of their weakness;
Exhortation to the Newly Baptized
Women, toward whom the addressee is instructed to show modesty and downcast gaze.
let there be modesty toward women, and your gaze turned down to the earth.
Nicocles or the Cyprians
Women considered in relation to marriage, sexual restraint, legitimate children, and royal self-control.
Moreover, I saw that while the majority of people are masters of themselves in other matters, even the best are slaves to the passions whose objects are boys and women;
I did not think I should have some children by a woman of humbler station and others by one of higher degree, nor that I should leave after me bastard progeny, as well as progeny of legitimate birth;
For, since I realized that all men are most jealous for their wives and children, being above all quick to resent offenses against them, and that wantonness in these relations is responsible for the greatest evils—many ere now, of princely rank as well as of private station, having lost their lives because of it—, I so strictly avoided all these grounds of offense that, from the time when I became …
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Married women, who under the cited common-law authorities were barred from serving as jurors.
and thence it is, that feme coverts are exempted to do suit in inferior courts.
But women, infants within the age of twenty-one years, deaf, dumb, idiots, those who are indicted or appealed of mortal felony, before they be acquitted, diseased persons, and excommunicated persons are exempted from doing suit.
Antigone
Women as a gendered group used by Ismene and Creon to define obedience, weakness, confinement, and male authority.
While I live, no woman will rule me.
Hereafter they must be women, and not left at large.
Therefore we must defend those who respect order, and in no way can we let a woman defeat us.
Kātyāyana Smṛti
Women, especially wives, treated as a distinct legal category with specific rules on debt liability, punishment, confinement, and property.
Dependent women should not be arrested;
A debt incurred by a wife together with her husband or son, or by herself alone, must be paid;
In all offenses, whatever monetary fine is prescribed for a man, women should pay half of that;
Manusmṛti
The class of women addressed by a distinct set of dharma rules concerning dependence, chastity, and widowhood.
and a second husband is nowhere prescribed for virtuous women.
Slokantara
Women as a class, repeatedly characterized in the text as inherently crooked or requiring guidance.
No woman is straight;
There are three things whose path in the world is not straight.
[Slo_23s-ab] nadīnāṁ ca latānāṁ ca strīṇāṁ ca kuṭilā gatiḥ | [Slo_23s-cd] yadi satyā bhaven nārī śilāyāṁ kumudaṁ bhavet || 23 ||
Economics
Women and wives as a social group assigned indoor stewardship, child care, and household management.
and so you could not distinguish whether the male or the female sex has the larger share of these.
But wives who sit about like fine ladies, expose themselves to comparison with painted and fraudulent hussies.
To the woman, since he has made her body less capable of such endurance, I take it that God has assigned the indoor tasks.