The Changing Legal Regulation of Cohabitation - From Fornicators to Family, 1600-2010 (Hardcover, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Law in Context
Release date:	September 2012
First published:	September 2012
Authors:	Rebecca Probert
Dimensions:	253 x 180 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	298
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-02084-9
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Private, property, family law > Family law
LSN:	1-107-02084-0
Barcode:	9781107020849

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