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| 008 | 120418s2012 enka b 001 0 eng | ||
| 020 | _a9781107020849 (hardback) | ||
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_aKD771 _b.P76 2012 |
| 100 | 1 | _aProbert, Rebecca. | |
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_aThe changing legal regulation of cohabitation : _bfrom fornicators to family, 1600-2010 / _cRebecca Probert. |
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_aCambridge [UK] ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2012. |
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_axii, 287 p. : _bill. ; _c26 cm. |
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| 490 | 0 | _aLaw in context | |
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 8 | _aMachine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Fornicators: the punishment of illicit sex; 3. No name: law, morality and precedent; 4. Unmarried wives in war and peace; 5. Living in sin: concerns and changes; 6. 'Stable illicit unions': cohabitation and the reform of divorce law; 7. Common-law wives: the 1970s and the creation of a myth; 8. Live-in lovers: trying to get back to basics; 9. Partners: New Labour and neutrality; 10. Conclusion. | |
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_a"This book has three key aims: first, to show how the legal treatment of cohabiting couples has changed over the past four centuries, from punishment as fornicators in the seventeenth century to eventual acceptance as family in the late twentieth; second, to chart how the language used to refer to cohabitation has changed over time and how different terms influenced policy debates and public perceptions; and, third, to estimate the extent of cohabitation in earlier centuries. To achieve this it draws on hundreds of reported and unreported cases as well as legislation, policy papers and debates in Parliament; thousands of newspaper reports and magazine articles; and innovative cohort studies that provide new and more reliable evidence as to the incidence (or rather the rarity) of cohabitation in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England. It concludes with a consideration of the relationship between legal regulation and social trends"-- _cProvided by publisher. |
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_aUnmarried couples _xLegal status, laws, etc. _zEngland _xHistory. |
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_aFornication _zEngland _xHistory. |
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_aUnmarried couples _xSocial aspects _zEngland. |
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_aLAW / Family Law / General. _2bisacsh |
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