Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge begins with a wife-sale and in defending himself against an outraged Victorian public Hardy assured them that the practice was well-known in rural areas and not a figment of his imagination ...
Informal Marriage, Cohabitation, and the Law, 1750-1989
Lady Anne, by marrying Sir George, acquired his domicile for all legal purposes. The parties in Lolley were all ... See e.g. Stephen Parker, Informal Marriage, Cohabitation and the Law, 1750–1989 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990), p.
2 Stephen Parker, for example, in his Informal Marriage, Cohabitation and the Law, 1750-1989 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990) focuses on the issue of who could rnarry whom in his account of nineteenth-century cohabitation and does not ...
Stephen Parker, Informal Marriage, Cohabitation and the Law, 1750–1989 (New York: St Martin's Press, 1990), p. 19. 30. G.R. Quaife, Wanton Wives and Wayward Wenches: Peasants and Illicit Sex in Early Seventeenth Century England (London: ...
60 It should, however, be noted that, in contrast to marriages by banns, the fact that the true names were not used did not affect the validity of a marriage by licence: see e.g., Cope v. Burt (1809) 1 Hag. Con. 434; 161 ER 608; Ewing, ...
CATO STREET CONSPIRACY Wilkinson , George T. An Authentic History of the Cato Street Conspiracy . 1820 . Worrall , David . Radical Culture : Discourse , Resistance and Surveillance , 1790–1820 . 1992 .
54 Taylor, Eve and the New Jerusalem, pp. 252–8; quote from p. 256. 55 Yeo, 'Robert Owen and radical culture', 101–2, quote from 102. 56 Southwell, An Essay on Marriage, p. 8. 57 C. Southwell, Confessions of a Free Thinker (London: ...
Marriage and Work in Nineteenth-Century English Law Luke Taylor. contract, consanguinity, affinity, “and some ... marriage in the mid-eighteenth.
On the question of capacity, Lord Fraser of Tullybelton had this to say: The contention on behalf of Mrs Gillick was that section 8(1) [of the Family Law Reform Act 1969] shows that, apart from the subsection, the consent of a minor to ...