The historiography: 32 family history. A model of legal change. The legal system.-The making of marriage.-Contract marriage.-Clandestine marriage.-Desertion, elopement, and wife-sale.-Private separation. The problem of child custody.-Judicial separation. Servants and masters.-The action for criminal conversation. Publicity and the press. The assessment of damages.-Parliamentary divorce.-Divorce reform proposals, 1604-1850.-The passage of the Divorce Reform Act, 1850-1857.-Epilogue: the century of divorce law reform, 1857-1987.
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This work tells the complex story of how, from the Reformation to the present day, English men and women have contrived to use, twist or defy the law in order to deal with marital breakdown.
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Road to divorce.
Divorce-- England-- History.
Divorce-- Law and legislation-- Great Britain-- History.