Author: David StewartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Divorce
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The Law of Marriage and Divorce
Author: David StewartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Divorce
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The Law of Marriage and Divorce, as Established in England and the United States
Author: David StewartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Divorce
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Law of Husband and Wife
Author: David StewartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Divorce
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Laws of Marriage, and the Laws of Divorce of England as Established by Statute and Common Law, Arranged in the Form of a Code, for Popular Use
Author: Marriage, Separation, and Divorce in England, 1500-1700
Author: K. J. KesselringPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192666959
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
England is well known as the only Protestant state not to introduce divorce in the sixteenth-century Reformation. Only at the end of the seventeenth century did divorce by private act of parliament become available for a select few men and only in 1857 did the Divorce Act and its creation of judicial divorces extend the possibility more broadly. Aspects of the history of divorce are well known from studies which typically privilege the records of the church courts that claimed a monopoly on marriage. But why did England alone of all Protestant jurisdictions not allow divorce with remarriage in the era of the Reformation, and how did people in failed marriages cope with this absence? One part of the answer to the first question, Kesselring and Stretton argue, and a factor that shaped people's responses to the second, lay in another distinctive aspect of English law: its common-law formulation of coverture, the umbrella term for married women's legal status and property rights. The bonds of marriage stayed tightly tied in post-Reformation England in part because marriage was as much about wealth as it was about salvation or sexuality, and English society had deeply invested in a system that subordinated a wife's identity and property to those of the man she married. To understand this dimension of divorce's history, this study looks beyond the church courts to the records of other judicial bodies, the secular courts of common law and equity, to bring fresh perspective to a history that remains relevant today.
The Marriage Law of England
Author: James Thomas HammickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage law
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
A Practical Treatise of the Law of Marriage and Divorce
Author: Leonard ShelfordPublisher:
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Category : Divorce
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Family Law in Britain and America in the New Century
Author: John EekelaarPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004304924
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
In Family Law in Britain and America in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Sanford N. Katz nineteen leading family law scholars in the US and Britain pay tribute to Sanford Katz, Darald and Juliet Libby Millennium Professor Emeritus and Professor of Law, Boston College Law School by giving a critical account of developments in family law in their jurisdictions since 2000. Areas covered include the institution of marriage, financial and property issues, parents and children, the state and children, access to justice, and international issues as well as an overview by the Editor. The volume will provide a stimulating and accessible account of the state and current direction of travel of family law in those countries.
A History of Divorce
Author: Shepherd Braithwaite KitchinPublisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584771909
Category : Divorce
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Kitchin, S.B. A History of Divorce. London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1912. xvi, 293 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2001041400. ISBN 1-58477-190-9. Cloth. $75. * A history of divorce from the early Roman era to the present. "It covers in a brief, readable way the law during the Roman period, in the Eastern Church and Eastern Europe, in the canon law and Western Europe, from the Reformation to the French Revolution, in England, the United States and the British Colonies.": Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 758.
Man and Wife in America
Author: Hendrik HartogPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674264363
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
In nineteenth-century America, the law insisted that marriage was a permanent relationship defined by the husband's authority and the wife's dependence. Yet at the same time the law created the means to escape that relationship. How was this possible? And how did wives and husbands experience marriage within that legal regime? These are the complexities that Hendrik Hartog plumbs in a study of the powers of law and its limits. Exploring a century and a half of marriage through stories of struggle and conflict mined from case records, Hartog shatters the myth of a golden age of stable marriage. He describes the myriad ways the law shaped and defined marital relations and spousal identities, and how individuals manipulated and reshaped the rules of the American states to fit their needs. We witness a compelling cast of characters: wives who attempted to leave abusive husbands, women who manipulated their marital status for personal advantage, accidental and intentional bigamists, men who killed their wives' lovers, couples who insisted on divorce in a legal culture that denied them that right. As we watch and listen to these men and women, enmeshed in law and escaping from marriages, we catch reflected images both of ourselves and our parents, of our desires and our anxieties about marriage. Hartog shows how our own conflicts and confusions about marital roles and identities are rooted in the history of marriage and the legal struggles that defined and transformed it.