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The Legal Status of Nigerian Women With Special Reference to Marriage.

The main purpose of the research was to collect and collate the relevant evidence of the legal status of Nigerian women in marriage and family life. The research was motivated by the relative lack of information on all aspects of women's life. Although a voluminous literature on the Nigerian peoples exists, references to women are incidental - necessary but insignificant adjuncts to discussions of and about men. No substantial legal work on Nigerian women has so far been published. It is in the absence of any comprehensive previous study of the legal status of women in marriage that the presen…