Tying the knot : the formation of marriage, 1836-2020 / Rebecca Probert, University of Exeter.
"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 pre...
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2021.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in English legal history.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.