The Caroline Norton court case highlighted the injustice of what British law?

Question

ARoyalties on intellectual property were discretionary only

BMost assets acquired by a wife went to her husband

CA woman could not decline a proposal of marriage from a nobleman

DHours of work were different for men and women

Select from the options above.

Correct Option: 2  

Explanation:
Most assets acquired by a wife went to her husband
Caroline wrote prose and poetry (e.g. The Sorrows of Rosalie (1829)). In 1836, she left her husband Hon. George Chapple Norton and subsisted on her earnings as an author, but Norton claimed these as his own, arguing successfully in court that, as her husband, Caroline's earnings were legally his. Paid nothing by her husband, her earnings confiscated, Caroline used the law to her own advantage by running up bills in her husband's name. Norton abducted and hid their sons.