husband's adultery if coupled with some other cause, such as cruelty or desertion. Almost all existing disabilities were lifted by the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919. Spain and Aquitania Until the imposition of the Salic Law in the 1500s, in Spain and Southern France, those regions part of the Visigothic Kingdom (418–721) and its various successor states (Asturias, León, Castile, Navarra, Aragon, Aquitania (Occitania) and Languedoc) Visigothic Law and Roman Law combined to allow women some rights. Particularly with the Liber Judiciorum as codified 642/643 and expanded on in the Code of Recceswinth in 653, women could inherit land and title and manage it independently from their husbands or male relations, dispose of their property in legal wills if they had no heirs, and women could represent themselves and bear witness in court by age 14 and arrange for their own marriages by age 20. In Spain these laws were further codified between 1252–1284 by Alfonso X of Castile with the Siete Partidas. These laws would later be reversed by imposition of the Salic Law to prohibit women inheriting property. For example, the Salic law was imposed to prohibit the daughters of Isabella I of Castile from inheriting in Aragon. Today the Spanish throne is inherited by Male-preference cognatic primogeniture. Argentinian colonial law Colonial Argentina in the 16th century was mixed with women from Spanish descent, indigenous descent or mixed. As descendants of the colonizers, Spanish women had greater status than that of indigenous women at the time. But women regardless of racial background had restrictions in her autonomy in society for example her main social role was confined to home and family while attending domestic duties such as taking care of children. Colonial Argentina being catholic was heavily influenced by the Roman Catholic Church who promoted a patriarchal family structure. Despite this, women had several positive rights such as equal inheritance as her siblings. Chinese law Women throughout historical and ancient China were considered inferior and had subordinate legal status based on the Confucian law. In Imperial China, the "Three Obediences" promoted daughters to obey their fathers, wives to obey their husbands and widows to obey their sons. Women could not inherit businesses or wealth and man had to adopt a son for such financial purposes. Late imperial law also features seven different types of divorces. A wife could be ousted if she failed to birth a son, committed