Road to divorce : England 1530-1987 /
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Author / Creator: | Stone, Lawrence |
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Imprint: | Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1990. |
Description: | xvii, 460 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1078259 |
Table of Contents:
- List of plates
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Abbreviations
- General introduction
- The law and custom of marriage
- Contract marriage
- From the Marriage Act of 1753 to 1868
- Part 2. The breaking of marriage: Desertion, elopement, and wife-sale
- Private separation
- Judicial separation
- The action for criminal conversation
- Parliamentary divorce
- Divorce reform proposals 1604-1850
- The passage to the Divorce Reform Act
- Epilogue: The century of divorce law
- Appendix: A list of pamphlets concerning the Marriage Act of 1753
- Tables
- Index