Format:
1 online resource (201 pages)
ISBN:
9781000286687
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Legal History Ser.
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Legal historiography -- Historical sources -- Book outline -- 2 The tripartite divorce system -- The influence of the English Reformation -- Divorce law in the seventeenth century -- The tripartite divorce system and informal divorce -- The case of Lord and Lady Byron -- The trial of Queen Caroline -- The reform of the Ecclesiastical Courts -- The divorce of the Earl of Ellenborough -- Royal Commission inquiry into the Ecclesiastical Courts -- 3 The enactment of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 -- The state of affairs in early Victorian England -- Caroline Norton and the trial of Lord Melbourne -- Mr Justice Maule -- Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Law Amendment Society -- The Campbell Commission -- Majority report -- Minority report -- The initial failed attempts to introduce divorce law reform -- The passage of the divorce bill -- Reflections on the reform of divorce law -- 4 Divorce under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 -- Grounds for divorce -- Adultery -- Incest -- Bigamy -- Rape -- Unnatural offences -- Cruelty -- Desertion -- Statutory damages -- Bars to divorce -- Collusion -- Connivance -- Condonation -- Petitioner's adultery -- Recrimination and unreasonable delay -- 5 The divorce courts -- The Cresswell court: Establishing the Divorce Court -- Introduction of the Queen's Proctor -- The legacy of Cresswell -- The Wilde court: Developing the law -- The creation of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division -- Reform of the Queen's Proctor -- The Hannen court: A steady approach -- Matrimonial Causes Act 1878 -- Matrimonial Causes Act 1884 -- The Butt court: A brief presidency -- The Jeune court: The road to reform -- Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367420062
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780367420062
Language:
English
