Tying the knot : the formation of marriage, 1836-2020 / Rebecca Probert.
By: Probert, Rebecca [author.]
.Series: Cambridge studies in English legal history.Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021Description: xiii, 283 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781316518281; 9781009000109.Subject(s): Marriage law -- England -- History | Husband and wife -- England -- HistoryDDC classification: 346.016 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Brougham Room, Principal Floor | Law Books Display | 346.016 PRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 020189 |
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| 342.62041 WAG Emergency state : how we lost our freedoms in the pandemic and why it matters / | 342.85041 BLA Blackstone's guide to the Equality Act 2010 / | 344.046 GOO Client Earth / | 346.016 PRO Tying the knot : the formation of marriage, 1836-2020 / | 346.15041 THO Quiet revolutionaries : the Married Women's Association and family law / | 346.410166 FIF Fifty years of the Divorce Reform Act 1969 / |
Conception, design, and implementation, 1819-1837 -- Reactions to the Act, 1837-1854 -- Amendments enacted and reform deferred, 1855-1872 -- Differences, divisions, and dispensing with the registrar, 1873-1899 -- Competing conceptions of marriage, 1900-1919 -- Consolidating complexity, 1920-1949 -- Convergence? 1950-1993 -- The rise of the wedding, 1994-2020 -- The legacy of the past and lessons for the future.
"Tying the Knot is about these intertwined legal, social, and religious histories. It has three interconnecting aims. The first is to analyse how the laws governing how couples can marry have evolved, from the 1836 Act that established the basic foundations of much of the current law to the present day. The second is to assess the evidence as to how couples have actually married over that period. And the third is to evaluate how far the law has enabled them to do so in accordance with their beliefs"-- Provided by publisher.