Tying the Knot

Analyses marriage law's development since 1836--its complexity, failures to respond to societal change, and constraints on different beliefs.

List 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.

About the author

Rebecca Probert is a Professor at the School of Law, University of Exeter, and Specialist Consultant to the Law Commission's Weddings Project. She is author of Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: A Reassessment (2009) and The Changing Legal Regulation of Cohabitation: From Fornicators to Family, 1600-2010 (2012).

Summary

Tying the Knot is for anyone interested in how couples have married from 1836 to the present day. It shows how the legal options have evolved and how social practices have changed, and demonstrates how the legal regulations have hindered many couples from marrying in accordance with their beliefs.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Probert, Rebecca (University of Exeter) Probert, Probert Rebecca
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.04.2023
• EAN: 9781108999830
• ISBN: 978-1-108-99983-0
• No. of pages: 297
• Series: Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; LAW / Family Law / General, LAW / Legal History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Family Law, Legal History, Social and cultural history