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The wife signs when the court listens
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Claim (verbatim)
Clauses recording a wife's consent to her husband's land sales are usually read as sentiment about family property; this conjecture reads them as buyer's insurance and joins their frequency to the enforcement of dower. A consent clause is worth drafting only once courts reliably let widows recover land alienated without their consent, so the clause should surge as a change-point when dower remedies harden in the decades around Magna Carta, rising fastest among purchasers most exposed to future widow's actions. The scribe records the wife because the buyer fears the widow. If this holds, the visibility of women in the charter record is a litigation-risk index rather than a sentiment index, and counting consent clauses charts the enforcement — not the ideology — of women's property rights.
Prediction clause (verbatim)
Primary clause: in DEEDS, the share of alienations by married men containing an explicit spousal-consent or joint-grant clause shows its largest structural break between 1190 and 1230. Secondary clauses: the share at least triples across the break, and the rise is steeper for outright sales than for pious grants of the same period.
Kill-dataset (verbatim)
DEEDS: charter texts and party data sufficient to identify married grantors and consent formulae over time.
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Provenance
Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5
Composed blind by claude-fable-5 with zero tool use and no information ingress of any kind; the packet was emitted as a single JSON text message for the orchestrator to persist.
Novelty / leakage triage
anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run
Dower enforcement, consent recorded in charters, and rising dower litigation are studied in legal-historical scholarship, anticipating the buyer's-insurance mechanism, but the structural-break test on spousal-consent clause frequency in DEEDS around 1190-1230 is un-run.
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