AuthorStone, Lawrence
TitleRoad to divorce : England 1530-1987 / by Lawrence Stone
Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1990
Descript xxvii, 460 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm

CONTENT

The Making of marriage -- Contract marriage -- Clandestine marriage -- From the marriage Act of 1753 to 1868 -- Desertion, Elopement, and wife-sale -- Private separation -- Judicial separation -- The Action for criminal conversation -- Divorce reform proposals, 1604-1850 -- The Passage of the divorce reform Act, 1850-1857 -- Epilogue: The Century of divorce law reform, 1857-1987


SUBJECT

  1. Divorce -- England -- History
  2. Marriage -- England -- History
  3. Divorce -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- History
  4. Marriage law -- England -- History
  5. Persons -- Marriage -- Divorce

LOCATIONCALL#STATUS
Law Library (3rd Floor)K/Eng.377 S73r 1990 DUE 30-09-24