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A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 2 of 3
George Elliott Howard
Separation and divorce were once questions for church courts, and this volume shows how they slipped from that grasp. Howard follows both through canon law, Protestant doctrine and centuries of English legislation, one statute and scandal at a time. The middle volume of his matrimonial trilogy, covering the law that shaped every English marriage. Legal history as a long tug of war.
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35 chapters
- 1Transcriber's note:
- 2A HISTORY OF Matrimonial Institutions
- 3ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 4PART II
- 5CHAPTER XI HISTORY OF SEPARATION AND DIVORCE UNDER ENGLISH AND ECCLESIASTICAL LAW
- 6I. THE EARLY CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE AND THE THEORY OF THE CANON LAW
- 7II. THE PROTESTANT DOCTRINE OF DIVORCE
- 8III. LAW AND THEORY DURING THREE CENTURIES
- 9PART III
- 10CHAPTER XII OBLIGATORY CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
- 11I. THE MAGISTRATE SUPERSEDES THE PRIEST AT THE NUPTIALS
- 12II. BANNS, CONSENT, AND REGISTRATION
- 13III. COURTSHIP, PROPOSALS, AND GOVERNMENT OF SINGLE PERSONS
- 14IV. PRE-CONTRACTS, BUNDLING, AND SEXUAL IMMORALITY
- 15V. BREACH OF PROMISE AND MARRIAGE PORTIONS
- 16VI. SELF-GIFTA, CLANDESTINE CONTRACTS, AND FORBIDDEN DEGREES
- 17VII. SLAVE MARRIAGES
- 18CHAPTER XIII ECCLESIASTICAL RITES AND THE RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE SOUTHERN COLONIES
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