Tying the Knot
Series: Cambridge Studies in English Legal History;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 6 April 2023
- ISBN 9781108999830
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages297 pages
- Size 228x151x15 mm
- Weight 440 g
- Language English 563
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Short description:
Analyses marriage law's development since 1836-its complexity, failures to respond to societal change, and constraints on different beliefs.
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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.
'With reform of weddings law back on the agenda, Rebecca Probert's fascinating study underscores how recourse to history can show that while the contexts has changed, the problems we face are not new and that reform is needed to untangle this knotty area of law. This is an exemplar of what historically informed legal analysis can achieve and deserves to be widely read by legal historians and family lawyers alike.' Russell Sandberg, Cardiff University
Table of Contents:
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.
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