| Description |
1 online resource (201 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Legal History Ser |
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Routledge Research in Legal History Ser
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Legal change: A process of political will -- Double standards: A process of overcoming moral hypocrisy -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 -- Granting divorce in spite of the petitioner's adultery -- Legacy of Lord St Helier -- 6 Divorce law reform in the early twentieth century -- Hunter bill -- First Russell bills -- The Gorell court: Call for reform -- Second Russell and Gorell bills -- The Gorell Commission -- Second Lord Gorell bill -- Post-war English society -- Decline of statutory damages -- Matrimonial Causes Act 1923 -- Knight bills -- Hotel divorces -- Matrimonial Causes Act 1937 -- 7 Quo vadis? The road to divorce -- Divorce law: A process of piecemeal reform |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000286687 |
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1000286681 |
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