equal rights statutes

equal rights statutes
The designation sometimes given to those statutes enacted since the civil war and the abolition of slavery which exemplify the changed feeling of the people towards the African race and are intended to place the colored man upon a perfect equality with all others before the law. Ferguson v Geis, 82 Mich 358. The modern terminology is "civil rights acts." But statutes removing the disabilities of married women and forbidding discrimination against women are sometimes referred to as "equal rights laws" or "equal rights statutes." See civil rights acts.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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