Doctrine of Separate Spheres Law and Legal Definition
Doctrine of separate spheres is an old common law principle that wives are limited to the personal or domestic sphere and that husbands had control of the public sphere. According to this early-19th-century doctrine, the woman’s place is in the home, and the man’s place is in the workforce earning money for the household and providing for his family.
Legal Definition list
- Doctrine of Scrivener's Error
- Doctrine of Revestment
- Doctrine of Relation Back
- Doctrine of Preclusion of Inconsistent Positions
- Doctrine of Precedent
- Doctrine of Separate Spheres
- Doctrine of Specialty
- Doctrine of Substantial Performance
- Doctrine of Substituted Judgment
- Doctrine of Superior Equities
- Doctrine of Tenures
