Tying the Knot
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-316-51828-1 (ISBN)
The Marriage Act 1836 established the foundations of modern marriage law, allowing couples to marry in register offices and non-Anglican places of worship for the first time. Rebecca Probert draws on an exceptionally wide range of primary sources to provide the first detailed examination of marriage legislation, social practice, and their mutual interplay, from 1836 through to the unanticipated demands of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. She analyses how and why the law has evolved, closely interrogating the parliamentary and societal debates behind legislation. She demonstrates how people have chosen to marry and how those choices have changed, and evaluates how far the law has been help or hindrance in enabling couples to marry in ways that reflect their beliefs, be they religious or secular. In an era of individual choice and multiculturalism, Tying the Knot sign posts possible ways in which future legislators might avoid the pitfalls of the past.
Rebecca Probert is a Professor at the School of Law, University of Exeter, and Specialist Consultant to the Law Commission's Weddings Project. She is author of Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: A Reassessment (2009) and The Changing Legal Regulation of Cohabitation: From Fornicators to Family, 1600-2010 (2012).
1. Introduction; 2. Conception, design and implementation, 1819–1837; 3. Reactions to the Act, 1837–1854; 4. Amendments enacted and reform deferred, 1855–1872; 5. Differences, divisions, and dispensing with the registrar, 1873–1899; 6. Competing conceptions of marriage, 1900–1919; 7. Consolidating complexity, 1920–1949; 8. Convergence? 1950–1993; 9. The rise of the wedding, 1994–2020; 10. The legacy of the past and lessons for the future.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.09.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Studies in English Legal History |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 158 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 590 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Familienrecht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-316-51828-0 / 1316518280 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-316-51828-1 / 9781316518281 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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