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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 contracts to marry and that marriage in church was almost universal outside London. It shows how the Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753 was primarily intended to prevent clergymen operating out of London's Fleet prison from conducting marriages, and that it was successful in so doing. It also refutes the idea that the 1753 Act was harsh or strictly interpreted, illustrating the courts' pragmatic approach. Finally, it establishes that only a few non-Anglicans married according to their own rites before the Act; while afterwards most - save the exempted Quakers and Jews - similarly married in church. In short, eighteenth-century couples complied with whatever the law required for a valid marriage.

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  • Title Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: A Reassessment
  • Author Rebecca Probert
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 372
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Publication date 2009-07-02
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780521516150 / 0521516153
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.9 in (21.59 x 13.72 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Marriage law - England - History - 18th, Husband and wife - England - History - 18th
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009497407
  • Dewey Decimal Code 346.420

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  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 09/18/2009, Page 17
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