There are some laws of his concerning murders and heiresses extant, but these contain nothing that any one can say is new and his own. |
No one likes to hear about heiresses unless they're in danger. |
Of course, it is not obligatory for young heirs and heiresses to make headlines for all the wrong reasons. |
Indeed the law obliged heiresses on their father's death to marry his closest available relative, even if it meant divorcing their current spouse, to keep property intact. |
The plot is about a pair of cosmetic company heiresses who lose their family fortune. |
In medieval England, a rape law existed, but according to Anna Clark, it was primarily formulated to deal with abduction and the illicit marriage of heiresses. |