Marriage law and practice in the long eighteenth century : a reassessment / Rebecca Probert.
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 con...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in English legal history.
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511596599 |
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