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Marriage law and practice in the long eighteenth century : = a reassessment /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Marriage law and practice in the long eighteenth century :/ Rebecca Probert.
Reminder of title:	a reassessment /
remainder title:	Marriage Law & Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author:	Probert, Rebecca,
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 358 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Marriage law - History - 18th century. - England -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511596599
ISBN:	9780511596599 (ebook)

Marriage law and practice in the long eighteenth century : = a reassessment /
Probert, Rebecca,

Marriage law and practice in the long eighteenth century :a reassessment /Marriage Law & Practice in the Long Eighteenth CenturyRebecca Probert. - 1 online resource (xii, 358 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in English legal history . - Cambridge studies in English legal history..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction1

This book uses a wide range of primary sources - legal, literary and demographic - to provide a radical reassessment of eighteenth-century marriage. It disproves the widespread assumption that couples married simply by exchanging consent, demonstrating that such exchanges were regarded merely as contracts to marry and that marriage in church was almost universal outside London. It shows how the Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753 was primarily intended to prevent clergymen operating out of London's Fleet prison from conducting marriages, and that it was successful in so doing. It also refutes the idea that the 1753 Act was harsh or strictly interpreted, illustrating the courts' pragmatic approach. Finally, it establishes that only a few non-Anglicans married according to their own rites before the Act; while afterwards most - save the exempted Quakers and Jews - similarly married in church. In short, eighteenth-century couples complied with whatever the law required for a valid marriage.

ISBN: 9780511596599 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

799684
Marriage law
--History--England--18th century.

LC Class. No.: KD753 / .P76 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 346.42016

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